The transformation of the English novel 1890-1930 : studies in Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Forster and Woolf

In an exciting and important book... The theoretical chapters are a model of elegantly styled accommodation; yet they brook no fudging of the issues, no comfortable ambiguities - Modern Fiction Studies The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930: Studies in Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Forster and Woolf is a provocative exploration of a crucial period in the development of the English novel, integrating critical theory, historical background and sophisticated close reading. Divided into two major sections, the first shows how historical and contextual material is essential for developing powerful readings. The second section is theoretical and speaks of the transformation in the way that we read and think about authors, readers, characters and form in the light of recent theory, offering an alternative to the deconstructive and Marxist trends in literary studies.

Acknowledgements

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

Part 1 'I Was the World in Which I Walked': the Transformation of the British Novel

The Narrator as Character in Hardy's Major Fiction

Beginnings and Endings in Hardy's Major Fiction

Speaking of Paul Morel: Voice, Unity, and Meaning in Sons andRR Lovers

Lawrence's Quest in The Rainbow

The Originality ofE.M. Forster

Part 2 The Case for Humanistic Formalism

Modes of Literary Inquiry: a Primer for Humanistic Formalism

Reading Conrad's Lord Jim: Reading Texts, Reading Livesyy

'Tell Us in Plain Words': an Introduction to Reading Joyce's Ulysses

Reading Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse

Selected Bibliography

Index

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