Schwarz Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 - 1930

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77983-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Reading the Novel

Daniel R. Schwarz has studied and taught the modern British novelfor decades and now brings his impressive erudition and criticalacuity to this insightful study of the major authors and novels ofthe first half of the twentieth century.

* * An insightful study of British fiction in the first half of thetwentieth century.

* Draws on the author's decades of experience researchingand teaching the modern British novel.

* Sets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural andliterary contexts.

* Features close readings of Hardy's Jude theObscure, Conrad's Heart of Darkness and LordJim, Lawrence's Sons and Lovers and TheRainbow, Joyce's Dubliners and Ulysses,Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse andForster's A Passage to India.

* Shows how these novels are essential components in a modernistcultural tradition which includes the visual arts.

* Takes account of recent developments in theory and culturalstudies.

* Written in an engaging style, avoiding jargon.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwarz, Daniel R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel.
1 "I Was the World in Which I Walked": TheTransformation of the British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930.
2 Hardy's Jude the Obscure: The Beginnings of theModern Psychological Novel.
3 Conrad's Heart of Darkness: "We Live, as WeDream - Alone".
4 Conrad's Lord Jim: Reading Texts, ReadingLives.
5 Lawrence's Sons and Lovers: Speaking of PaulMorel: Voice, Unity, and Meaning.
6 Lawrence's The Rainbow: Family Chronicle, SexualFulfillment, and the Quest for Form and Values.
7 Joyce's Dubliners: Moral Paralysis in Dublin.
8 Joyce's Ulysses: The Odyssey of Leopold Bloom andStephen Dedalus on June 16, 1904.
9 Woolf's Mrs Dalloway: Sexual Repression, Madness,and Social Form.
10 Woolf's To the Lighthouse: Choreographing Lifeand Creating Art as Time Passes.
11 Forster's Passage to India: The Novel of Mannersas Political Novel.
Notes.
Select Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel R. Schwarz is Professor of English and Stephen H.Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has wonmajor teaching prizes. He is the author of the recently publishedBroadway Boogie Woogie (2003) and the widely readImagining the Holocaust (1999; rev. edn 2000). His manyprevious publications include Rereading Conrad (2001),Reconfiguring Modernism (1997), The Transformation of theEnglish Novel, 1890--1930 (1989; rev. edn 1995), and ReadingJoyce's "Ulysses" (1987; Centenary edn 2004).