Modernism and Naturalism in British and Irish Fiction, 1880-1930

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-107-08388-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joyce, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. How Zola crossed (and didn't cross) the English Channel; 2. Portraits and artists: impressionism and naturalism; 3. A naturalism for Ireland; 4. Proto-sensitivity: naturalism, aestheticism, and the New Woman novel; 5. The voice of witlessness: Virginia Woolf and the poor.

Über Autor(innen)

Joyce, Simon
Simon Joyce is the Margaret Hamilton Professor of English at the College of William and Mary, Virginia. His previous books include Capital Offenses: Geographies of Class and Crime in Victorian London (2003) and The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror (2007).