Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics

This study addresses the problems of perception and representation that occupied modernist writers such as James, Conrad and Woolf.

Autorentext

Jesse Matz is Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University.

Zusammenfassung
Matz examines the writing of such modernists as James, Conrad and Woolf, who used the word 'impression' to describe what they wanted their fiction to present. This 2001 study addresses the problems of perception and representation that occupied writers in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments; Introduction: Proust's deathless analogy; 1. Impressions of modernity; 2. Pater's homoerotic impression; 3. The woman of genius; 4. The distant labourer; 5. Woolf's phenomenological impression; 6. Three Impressionist allegories; Conclusion: Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Bell; Notes; Index.