ENGLISH

British Fiction After Modernism: The Novel at Mid-Century

By Marina MacKay , Lyndsey Stonebridge

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2007
ISBN
1403986428, 9781403986429
Open Library ID
OL17219097M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1532286 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
234\234
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

This collection of essays by leading and emergent critics of twentieth-century fiction offers a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism. Focusing on mid-century writing, the book identifies continuities of preoccupation - with national identity, historiography and the challenge to literary form presented by public and private violence--that span the entire century. The book offers new readings of such famous figures as Amis, Golding, Greene and Spark, and reappraises the work of brilliant but less familiar contemporaries including Ann Quin, Elizabeth Taylor and Storm Jameson.

Similar books