English Novel Hist 1895-1920

1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-415-01501-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trotter, David

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Medical Memories and Experiences Chapter 1 Treating the Past: Narratives of the Medical Profession after 1945 Chapter 2 Treatments from the Past: Continuities in Treating Venereal Diseases Chapter 3 Treatments for the Past? `War Children' and the New State Chapter 4 Institutionalised Treatments of the Past: The Fursorgeheim Leuben in Postwar Dresden, Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

David Trotter is Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London.