Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 - 1930

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
  cultural tradition which includes the visual arts.

• Takes account of recent developments in theory and cultural
  studies.

• Written in an engaging style, avoiding jargon.

Autorentext
Daniel R. Schwarz is Professor of English and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has won major teaching prizes. He is the author of the recently published Broadway Boogie Woogie (2003) and the widely read Imagining the Holocaust (1999; rev. edn 2000). His many previous publications include Rereading Conrad (2001), Reconfiguring Modernism (1997), The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890--1930 (1989; rev. edn 1995), and Reading Joyce's Ulysses (1987; Centenary edn 2004).

Zusammenfassung
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 cultural tradition which includes the visual arts.

• Takes account of recent developments in theory and cultural studies.

• Written in an engaging style, avoiding jargon.

Inhalt

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.