Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 - 1930ISBN: 978-0-631-22621-5
Hardcover
312 pages
October 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.