{"product_id":"reading-the-modern-british-and-irish-novel-1890-1930-isbn-9780631226215","title":"Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 - 1930","description":"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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws on the author’s decades of experience researching and teaching the modern British novel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural and literary contexts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures close readings of Hardy’s \u003ci\u003eJude the Obscure\u003c\/i\u003e, Conrad’s \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLord Jim\u003c\/i\u003e, Lawrence’s \u003ci\u003eSons and Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e, Joyce’s \u003ci\u003eDubliners\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, Woolf’s \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e and Forster’s \u003ci\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShows how these novels are essential components in a modernist cultural tradition which includes the visual arts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTakes account of recent developments in theory and cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten in an engaging style, avoiding jargon.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Introduction: Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel. \u003cp\u003e1 “I Was the World in Which I Walked”: The Transformation of the British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Hardy’s \u003ci\u003eJude the Obscure\u003c\/i\u003e: The Beginnings of the Modern Psychological Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Conrad’s \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e: “We Live, as We Dream - Alone”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Conrad’s \u003ci\u003eLord Jim\u003c\/i\u003e: Reading Texts, Reading Lives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Lawrence’s \u003ci\u003eSons and Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e: Speaking of Paul Morel: Voice, Unity, and Meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Lawrence’s \u003ci\u003eThe Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e: Family Chronicle, Sexual Fulfillment, and the Quest for Form and Values.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Joyce’s \u003ci\u003eDubliners\u003c\/i\u003e: Moral Paralysis in Dublin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Joyce’s \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e: The Odyssey of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus on June 16, 1904.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Woolf’s \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e: Sexual Repression, Madness, and Social Form.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Woolf’s \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e: Choreographing Life and Creating Art as Time Passes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Forster’s \u003ci\u003ePassage to India\u003c\/i\u003e: The Novel of Manners as Political Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \"[Schwarz's introductions] humanize texts that might otherwise seem too foreboding ... The broadly diverse sense of human interest that results can only dispel any contrary sense of modernism's exclusivity, difficulty or autonomy.\" \u003ci\u003eJames Joyce Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eDaniel R. Schwarz\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBroadway Boogie Woogie\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and the widely read \u003ci\u003eImagining the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e (1999; rev. edn 2000). His many previous publications include \u003ci\u003eRereading Conrad\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eReconfiguring Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), \u003ci\u003eThe Transformation of the English Novel, 1890--1930\u003c\/i\u003e (1989; rev. edn 1995), and \u003ci\u003eReading Joyce’s “Ulysses”\u003c\/i\u003e (1987; Centenary edn 2004).  \u003cb\u003eDaniel R. Schwarz\u003c\/b\u003e has studied and taught the modern British and Irish novel for decades and now brings his impressive erudition and critical acuity to bear in this insightful study of the major authors and novels from 1890--1930. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter a compelling introduction outlining his method and a substantial first chapter establishing the intellectual, cultural, and literary contexts in which the modern British and Irish novel was produced, Schwarz turns to powerful and sensitive close reading of modernist masterworks. He shows how Hardy’s \u003ci\u003eJude the Obscure\u003c\/i\u003e, Conrad’s \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLord Jim\u003c\/i\u003e, Lawrence’s \u003ci\u003eSons and Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e, Joyce’s \u003ci\u003eDubliners\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, Woolf’s \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e and Forster’s \u003ci\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/i\u003e form essential components in a modernist cultural tradition which includes the visual arts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn his characteristic lucid and readable style, Schwarz’s work takes account of recent developments in theory and cultural studies. His persuasive study will not only be invaluable to students and teachers, but will also be of interest to the general reader.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989918761189,"sku":"NP9780631226215","price":113.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631226215.jpg?v=1761785905","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/reading-the-modern-british-and-irish-novel-1890-1930-isbn-9780631226215","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}