附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-332) and index.
Chapter INTRODUCTION -- part Part I ECONOMIES AND STYLES -- chapter 1 CONSUMING PASSIONS -- chapter 2 LABOUR -- chapter 3 GOLD STANDARDS -- chapter 4 THRESHOLDS -- chapter 5 INTERIORS -- chapter 6 THE RELEVANCE OF ULYSSES -- part Part II NATION AND SOCIETY -- chapter 7 DEGENERATION -- chapter 8 DECLENSION -- chapter 9 FRONTIERS -- chapter 10 ENGLISHNESS -- chapter 11 SPIES -- chapter 12 AWAKENINGS -- part Part III THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF MODERNISM -- chapter 13 SEX NOVELS -- chapter 14 DISGUST -- chapter 15 HENRY JAMES'S ODD WOMEN -- chapter 16 IRONY AND REVULSION IN KIPLING AND CONRAD -- chapter 17 WAITING: JAMES'S LAST NOVELS -- chapter 18 WYNDHAM LEWIS -- chapter 19 STEPHEN HERO AND BLOOM THE OBSCURE.
摘要:First Published in 1993. Written specifically for students and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, David Trotter's The English Novel in History 1895-1920 provides the first detailed and fully comprehensive analysis of early twentieth-century English fiction. Whereas all previous studies have been rigorously selective, Trotter looks at over 140 novelists across the whole spectrum of fiction: from the innovations of Joyce's Ulysses through to popular mass-market genres such as detective stories and spy-thrillers. By examining the novels in both stylistic and historical terms, David Trotter looks at the ways in which writers responded to contemporary preoccupations such as the spectacle of consumption and the growth of suburbia, or to anxieties about the decline of Empire, racial degeneration' and sexual anarchy'. He also challenges the view that literature of the period can be interpreted as a neat procession from realism to Modernism.
