Description
| Product ID: | 9781107083882 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Modernism and Naturalism in British and Irish Fiction, 1880–1930 |
| Authors: | Author: Simon Joyce |
| Page Count: | 250 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Ireland, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In this volume, Simon Joyce examines the ways in which readers have come to view canonical modernists such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, showing how their work might be read in conjunction with lesser-known Irish and 'New Woman' novelists such as George Moore, Sarah Grand, and George Egerton. 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 Émile 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-10-23 |