ABSTRACT

This is an ambitious and fascinating analysis of early twentieth-century English literature from Kipling, Conrad, Lawrence and Forster through figures like Joyce and Woolf to writers such as Evelyn Waugh. There are chapters on the younger writers of the age as well as the more popular minor writers like Buchan and Dornford Yates.


chapter Chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 2|16 pages

Surviving Giants: Hardy and James

chapter Chapter 3|21 pages

Joseph Conrad and the Politics of Power

chapter Chapter 6|12 pages

Fictional Politics and some Minor Forms

chapter Chapter 7|15 pages

Arnold Bennett on the Pentonville Omnibus

chapter Chapter 8|19 pages

Virginia Woolf and the Search for Essences

chapter Chapter 9|7 pages

Modernism and its Implications

chapter Chapter 10|29 pages

James Joyce, the Professors and the Common Reader

chapter Chapter 11|10 pages

The Reading Public and the Rise of a Profession

chapter Chapter 12|21 pages

D. H. Lawrence: Our Bert versus Our Lorenzo

chapter Chapter 13|18 pages

The 1930s: An Aftermath

chapter |23 pages

Chronology