Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 - 1930 (Reading the Novel)

Daniel R. Schwarz has studied and taught the modern British novelfor decades and now brings his impressive erudition and criticalacuity to this insightful study of the major authors and novels ofthe first half of the twentieth century. An insightful study of British fiction in the first half of thetwentieth century.Draws on the author’s decades of experience researchingand teaching the modern British novel.Sets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural andliterary contexts.Features close readings of Hardy’s Jude theObscure, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and LordJim, Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers and TheRainbow, Joyce’s Dubliners and Ulysses,Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse andForster’s A Passage to India.Shows how these novels are essential components in a modernistcultural tradition which includes the visual arts.Takes account of recent developments in theory and culturalstudies.Written in an engaging style, avoiding jargon.