Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 497 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4051-9445-7, 9781118607220. Blackwell companions to literature and culture 155. This Companion is addressed to readers interested in the English novel and the many ways there are to think and write about it. Each of the twenty‐nine essays presumes a basic familiarity with the tradition of the English novel and an appetite for...
The idea of this collection began at a conference on mid-century fi ction and in honour of Angus Wilson held in the spring of 2001 at the University of East Anglia. Our thanks to Wilson’s partner, Tony Garrett, and to those people who contributed to that event in signifi cant ways: Val Striker, Jon Cook, Denise Riley, Peter Conradi and Maud Ellmann. Our main thanks go to our...
Barnes & Noble, 1980. — 314 p. ISBN: 0-06-492542-0. The characteristic stance of the critic to his text is that of the reader over the writer's shoulder. The stance which lies behind the essays in the present volume is better described as the reader looking over his own shoulder. The text, the specific work, is still the unquestioned centre of attention, but it is an attention...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 287 p. The French Revolution sparked an ideological debate which also brought Britain to the brink of revolution in the 1790s. Just as radicals wrote ‘Jacobin’ fiction, so the fear of rebellion prompted conservatives to respond with novels of their own, indeed, these soon outnumbered the Jacobin novels. This is the first survey of...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2002, -317 p. In this introduction to post-war fiction in Britain, Dominic Head shows how the novel yields a special insight into the important areas of social and cultural history in the second half of the twentieth century. Head’s study is the most exhaustive survey of post-war British fiction available. It includes chapters on the...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. — 220 p. How did realist novelists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries hint at sex while maintaining a safe distance from pornography? Metaphors helped: waves, oceans, blooms, and illuminations were all deployed in respectable realist novels to allude to the sexual act, allowing writers to portray companionate marriage while...
New York, Washington Square Press, 1966. — 386 p. For 50 famous works of British literature, together with brief reviews of over 50 additional, related novels. A unique guide for students, teachers, and the general reader. A Student’s Guide to 50 British Novels includes: Vanity Fair, Mrs. Dalloway, Tom Jones, Of Human Bondage, Lord Jim, 1984, Lord of the Flies, A Passage to...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 236 p. In the early twentieth century, subjects of the British Empire ceased to rely on a model of centre and periphery in imagining their world and came instead to view it as an interconnected network of cosmopolitan people and places. English language and literature were promoted as essential components of a commercial, cultural, and...
Nation and Novel is a literary history of the English novel and its distinctive, often subversive contribution to ideas of nationhood. In it I have concentrated for the most part on the major novelists, those whose writings have been most influential and have attracted a lasting and international readership. I have engaged in more detailed textual interpretation than is usual...
Missouri (Columbia, USA): University of Missouri Press, 2004. — 223 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8262-1518-5. The Heart’s Desire Dereliction of Duty Our Man in Sulaco The Perfect Anarchist Conclusion: Of Weak Idealism Works Cited
Oxford University Press Warehouse, 1886. — 162 p. The Pilgrimage to Parnassus The Return from Parnassus The Return from Parnassus (Part II), or the Scourge Of Simony The present volume contains a trilogy of dramas which, although known to have once existed, has lain perdu to the world from the time of its composition, except with regard to the third part. That third part was...
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