Modernism and naturalism in British and Irish fiction, 1880-1930

• Tác giả: Simon Joyce
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1107083882
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 823.9109112 English fiction
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• Mô tả vật lý: viii, 216 pages ; , 24 cm
• Bộ sưu tập: Văn học
• ID: 153670
• Chủ đề: 1. English fiction--History and criticism; 2. English fiction--Irish authors; 3. Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain; 4. Naturalism in literature; 5. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

"This book argues that the history of literary modernism is inextricably connected with naturalism. Simon Joyce traces a complex response among aesthetes to the work of Emile Zola at the turn of the century, recovering naturalism's assumed compatibility with impressionism as a central cause of their ambivalence. Highlighting a little-studied strain of reflexive naturalism in which Zola's mode of analytical observation is turned upon the authors themselves, Joyce suggests that the confluence of naturalism and impressionism formed the precondition for so-called stream-of-consciousness writing. This style served to influence not only the work of canonical modernists such as Joyce and Woolf but also that of lesser-known writers such as George Moore, Sarah Grand, and George Egerton"-- Provided by publisher.