A History of the Modernist Novel

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 6/25/2015
EAN 9781107034952, ISBN10: 1107034957

Hardcover, 550 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

A History of the Modernist Novel reassesses the modernist canon and produces a wealth of new comparative analyses that radically revise the novel's history. Drawing on American, English, Irish, Russian, French and German traditions, leading scholars challenge existing attitudes about realism and modernism and draw new attention to everyday life and everyday objects. In addition to its exploration of new forms such as the modernist genre novel and experimental historical novel, this book considers the novel in postcolonial, transnational and cosmopolitan contexts. A History of the Modernist Novel also considers the novel's global reach while suggesting that the epoch of modernism is not yet finished.

1. The aesthetic novel, from Ouida to Firbank Joseph Bristow
2. What is it like to be conscious? Impressionism and the problem of qualia Paul Armstrong
3. Modernism and the French novel
a genealogy, 1888–1913 Jean-Michel Rabaté
4. Russian modernism and the novel Leonid Livak
5. Bootmakers and watchmakers
Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Woolf, and modernist fiction David Bradshaw
6. 'A call and an answer'
E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, and English modernism Howard J. Booth
7. American literary realism
popularity and politics in a modernist frame Janet Galligani Casey
8. Modernist domesticity
reconciling the paradox in Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Nella Larsen Deborah Clarke
9. Energy, stress, and modernist style Enda Duffy
10. Modernist materialism
war, gender, and representation Anne Fernihough
11. Serial modernism Sean Latham
12. Translation and the modernist novel Emily O. Wittman
13. Modernist style and the 'inward turn' in German-language fiction Ritchie Robertson
14. Mann's modernism Todd Kontje
15. Democratic form and narrative proportion in Joyce and Dos Passos Samuel Alexander
16. The modernist genre novel David Earle
17. Modernism and historical fiction
the case of H. D. Lara Vetter
18. The modernist novel in its contemporaneity Pamela L. Caughie
19. The modernist novel in the world-system Lara Winkiel
20. Modernist cosmopolitanism Jessica Berman
21. Modernism and the big house Nicholas Allen
22. In the wake of Joyce
Beckett, O'Brien, and the late modernist novel Patrick Bixby
23. Destinies of Bildung
belatedness and the modernist novel Gregory Castle.