Douglas Hewitt

English Fiction of the Early Modern Period

1890-1940

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is an ambitious and fascinating analysis of early twentieth-century English literature from Kipling, Conrad, Lawrence and Forster through figures like Joyce and Woolf to writers such as Evelyn Waugh. There are chapters on the younger writers of the age as well as the more popular minor writers like Buchan and Dornford Yates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780582492844
• ISBN-10: 058249284X
• Artikelnr.: 39215765

Autorenporträt

Douglas Hewitt

Inhaltsangabe

1. Surviving giants - Hardy and James. 2. Joseph Conrad and the politics of
power. 3. Rudyard Kipling - Imperial responsibility and literary escape. 4.
E.M. Forster - The proclamations of the liberal agnostic. 5. Fictional
politics and some minor forms; Arnold Bennett on the Pentonville omnibus.
6. Virginia Woolf and the search for essences; Modernism and its
implications. 7. James Joyce, the professors and the common reader. 8. The
reading public and the rise of a profession. 9. D.H.Lawrence - Our Bert
versus our Lorenzo; the 1930s - an aftermath.Notes on biography
Major works and criticism