A History of the Modernist Novel

This book reassesses the modernist canon and produces a wealth of new comparative analyses that radically revise the novel's history.

Gregory Castle (Edited by)

9781107034952, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 June 2015

550 pages, 6 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.88 kg

A History of the Modernist Novel reassesses the modernist canon and produces a wealth of new comparative analyses that radically revise the novel's history. Drawing on American, English, Irish, Russian, French and German traditions, leading scholars challenge existing attitudes about realism and modernism and draw new attention to everyday life and everyday objects. In addition to its exploration of new forms such as the modernist genre novel and experimental historical novel, this book considers the novel in postcolonial, transnational and cosmopolitan contexts. A History of the Modernist Novel also considers the novel's global reach while suggesting that the epoch of modernism is not yet finished.

1. The aesthetic novel, from Ouida to Firbank Joseph Bristow
2. What is it like to be conscious? Impressionism and the problem of qualia Paul Armstrong
3. Modernism and the French novel: a genealogy, 1888–1913 Jean-Michel Rabaté
4. Russian modernism and the novel Leonid Livak
5. Bootmakers and watchmakers: Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Woolf, and modernist fiction David Bradshaw
6. 'A call and an answer': E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, and English modernism Howard J. Booth
7. American literary realism: popularity and politics in a modernist frame Janet Galligani Casey
8. Modernist domesticity: reconciling the paradox in Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Nella Larsen Deborah Clarke
9. Energy, stress, and modernist style Enda Duffy
10. Modernist materialism: war, gender, and representation Anne Fernihough
11. Serial modernism Sean Latham
12. Translation and the modernist novel Emily O. Wittman
13. Modernist style and the 'inward turn' in German-language fiction Ritchie Robertson
14. Mann's modernism Todd Kontje
15. Democratic form and narrative proportion in Joyce and Dos Passos Samuel Alexander
16. The modernist genre novel David Earle
17. Modernism and historical fiction: the case of H. D. Lara Vetter
18. The modernist novel in its contemporaneity Pamela L. Caughie
19. The modernist novel in the world-system Lara Winkiel
20. Modernist cosmopolitanism Jessica Berman
21. Modernism and the big house Nicholas Allen
22. In the wake of Joyce: Beckett, O'Brien, and the late modernist novel Patrick Bixby
23. Destinies of Bildung: belatedness and the modernist novel Gregory Castle.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]