Daniel R. Schwarz has studied and taught the modern British novel
for decades and now brings his impressive erudition and critical
acuity to this insightful study of the major authors and novels of
the first half of the twentieth century.
* * An insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the
twentieth century.
* Draws on the author’s decades of experience researching
and teaching the modern British novel.
* Sets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural and
literary contexts.
* Features close readings of Hardy’s Jude the
Obscure, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Lord
Jim, Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers and The
Rainbow, Joyce’s Dubliners and Ulysses,
Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse and
Forster’s A Passage to India.
* Shows how these novels are essential components in a modernist
cultural tradition which includes the visual arts.
* Takes account of recent developments in theory and cultural
studies.
* Written in an engaging style, avoiding jargon.
İçerik tablosu
Introduction: Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel.
1 ‘I Was the World in Which I Walked’: The
Transformation of the British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930.
2 Hardy’s Jude the Obscure: The Beginnings of the
Modern Psychological Novel.
3 Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: ‘We Live, as We
Dream – Alone’.
4 Conrad’s Lord Jim: Reading Texts, Reading
Lives.
5 Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers: Speaking of Paul
Morel: Voice, Unity, and Meaning.
6 Lawrence’s The Rainbow: Family Chronicle, Sexual
Fulfillment, and the Quest for Form and Values.
7 Joyce’s Dubliners: Moral Paralysis in Dublin.
8 Joyce’s Ulysses: The Odyssey of Leopold Bloom and
Stephen Dedalus on June 16, 1904.
9 Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway: Sexual Repression, Madness,
and Social Form.
10 Woolf’s To the Lighthouse: Choreographing Life
and Creating Art as Time Passes.
11 Forster’s Passage to India: The Novel of Manners
as Political Novel.
Notes.
Select Bibliography.
Yazar hakkında
Daniel R. Schwarz is Professor of English and Stephen H.
Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has won
major teaching prizes. He is the author of the recently published
Broadway Boogie Woogie (2003) and the widely read
Imagining the Holocaust (1999; rev. edn 2000). His many
previous publications include Rereading Conrad (2001),
Reconfiguring Modernism (1997), The Transformation of the
English Novel, 1890–1930 (1989; rev. edn 1995), and Reading
Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ (1987; Centenary edn 2004).
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