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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

    Trade Review
    "[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.

    Notes.

    Select Bibliography.

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/09/2004
      ISBN13: 9780631226222, 978-0631226222
      ISBN10: 0631226222
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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

        Trade Review
        "[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.

        Notes.

        Select Bibliography.

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