Shows how these novels are essential components in a modernist
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"[Schwarz's introductions] humanize texts that might otherwise seem too foreboding ... The broadly diverse sense of human interest that results can only dispel any contrary sense of modernism's exclusivity, difficulty or autonomy." James Joyce Quarterly
Table of Contents
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.
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