Kettle An Introduction to the English Novel

Volume II
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-36203-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Revivals: An Introduction to the English Novel

First published in 1953, this book forms the second part of Arnold Kettle’s An Introduction to the English Novel. In this second part, Kettle builds a discussion of the modern English novel around the study of various books that have a more than casual significance in its development. He begins with an analysis of James, Hardy and Butler: three late Victorian writers whose work points forward to the major preoccupations of twentieth-century novelists. In his discussion of a dozen or so of these points, the author examines their progress in the long struggle of the novelist to see life steadily and whole, and points out some of the problems and hazards that beset the writer still.

‘The selection both of novelists and their work is excellent… it is both shrewd and witty…’

The Times Literary Supplement

‘Altogether this is a refreshing, challenging and original work, wholly adult in tone, and never pedantic or dull’

The Guardian

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kettle, Arnold

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Part I: The Last Victorians 1. Introduction 2. Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady 3. Samuel Butler: The Way of All Flesh 4. Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles Part II: The Twentieth Century- The First Quarter 1. Introduction 2. Joseph Conrad: Nostromo 3. Mr Bennett and Mrs Woolf 4. D. H. Lawrence: The Rainbow 5. James Joyce: Ulysses 6. E. M. Forster: A Passage to India Part III: The Twentieth Century- The Second Quarter 1. Introduction 2. Aldous Huxley: Point Counter Point 3. Graham Green: the Heart of the Matter 4. Joyce Cary: Mister Johnson 5. Ivy Crompton-Burnett: A Family and a Fortune 6. Henry Green: Party Going; Notes and References; Reading List; Index