A reader's guide to the contemporary English novel

In this study, Frederick R. Karl defines and evaluates the main movements in the English novel beginning with Joyce. Karl devotes separate chapters to the works of C. P. Snow, Samuel Beckett, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Graham Greene, Lawrence Durrell, Elizabeth Bowen, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Henry Greene, and Joyce Cary. In a series of composite chapters he considers Iris Murdoch, Anthony Powell, the Angry Young Men, Rosamond Lehmann, Nigel Dennis, William Golding, Doris Lessing, and Angus Wilson.

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Frederick R. Karl is the author of Reader's Guides to The Nineteenth Century British Novel and Joseph Conrad .

I The Contemporary English Novel	p. 3
II Waiting for Beckett: Quest and Re-Quest	p. 19
III Lawrence Durrell: Physical and Metaphysical Love	p. 40
IV The Politics of Conscience: The Novels of C. P. Snow	p. 62
V Graham Greene's Demonical Heroes	p. 85
VI The World of Elizabeth Bowen	p. 107
VII Joyce Cary: The Moralist as Novelist	p. 131
VIII George Orwell: The White Man's Burden	p. 148
IX The World of Evelyn Waugh: The Normally Insane	p. 167
X Normality Defined: The Novels of Henry Green	p. 183
XI The Intimate World of Ivy Compton-Burnett	p. 201
XII The Angries: Is There a Protestant in the House?	p. 220
XIII The Still Comic Music of Humanity: The Novels of Anthony Powell, Angus Wilson, and Nigel Dennis	p. 238
XIV The Novel as Moral Allegory: The Fiction of William Golding, Iris Murdoch, Rex Warner, and P. H. Newby	p. 254
XV Composite	p. 274
Afterword	p. 293
Acknowledgments	p. 295
Index	p. 297

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