The Unknown Thomas Hardy: Lesser-Known Aspects of Hardy's Life and Career

Literature & Fiction

Orel, Harold

History & Criticism

St.Martin's Press

The final years of Thomas Hardy, 1912-1928

Macmillan

Kipling: Interviews and Recollections (Interviews and Recollections)

Kipling., Rudyard

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Victorian literary critics: George Henry Lewes, Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton, Leslie Stephen, Andrew Lang, George Saintsbury, and Edmund Gosse

Victorian Short Stories: An Anthology (Everyman's Library)

British & Irish

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd.

This book is a study of the development of the Victorian short story, which by the 1890s and the appearance of the Sherlock Holmes stories, had become the most popular literary product of the late nineteenth century. The book examines the work of nine distinguished writers: William Carleton and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu serve to illustrate the change from a largely oral tradition to a more sophisticated understanding of the nature of the reading public. Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope exemplify significant changes in the relationship between an author and his audience. Thomas Hardy insisted on older, more traditional modes of narrative, but his storytelling sense had been sharpened by experiences with many editors of periodicals who believed they were serving the 'modern' public. The other writers treated at length are Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells.

The Victorian Short Story: Development and Triumph of a Literary Genre

Cambridge University Press

<p>Travel, history. Edition not noted. Book and jacket near fine and clean, inside and out, lacket lightly rubbed. Large book, extra shipping charges will be requested for international orders.</p>

The Scottish world: History and culture of Scotland

History

Henry L. Snyder and Marilyn Stokstad (editors)

Europe

Abrams

While Englishmen were dying by the thousands on the battlefields of Europe, their friends and relations on the home front were reading books of humor, tales of espionage and adventure, colorful romances, and historical swashbucklers. Harold Orel's penetrating book explains why escapist fiction dominated the popular literary market in England throughout the Great War. A large factor, he shows, was the view of publishers, reviewers, booksellers, libraries, literary groups, and the general reading public that escapist fiction was a useful diversion from the inescapable horrors of war.Orel begins with a survey of the British literary world and its attitudes toward the novel at the outbreak of the war. Within a broad social, cultural, and economic context he depicts the "fiction industry" at a time of extraordinary upheaval, before the triumph of Modernism, when the attitudes and esthetics of writers, the tastes of readers, and the economics of the marketplace were undergoing rapid transformation.Subsequent chapters offer detailed studies of fifteen of the most touted novels of the period and the ways they reflected--or, more often, failed to reflect--the radical changes taking place as they were being written.The writers examined include George Moore, Norman Douglas, Frank Swinnerton, Compton Mackenzie, Mary Webb, Joseph Conrad, Wyndham Lewis, John Buchan, Alec Waugh, H.G. Wells, and Arnold Bennett. Many of their novels during these years avoid mention of the war that was reshaping their world, or allude to it only obliquely. The book concludes with a review of changes in the publishing world in 1918, the last year of the Great War.In its comprehensive coverage of a wide range of once popular but now neglected novels, Orel's authoritative study fills a gap in the cultural and literary history of early twentieth-century England.

Popular Fiction in England, 1914-1918

Univ Pr of Kentucky

Critical Essays on Rudyard Kipling (Critical Essays on British Literature)

G.K. Hall

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