Redefining the Modern : Essays on Literature and Society in Honor of Joseph Wiesenfarth

by Baker, William; Nadel, Ira Bruce; Wiesenfarth, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780838640135
• ISBN10: 0838640133
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Associated Univ Pr

Summary

The essays in the collection not only bring fresh perspectives to nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary works but examine the nuanced relationship between Victorian and modern literature through redefinitions and realignments. Ranging from Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot to Richard Wright and Margaret Drabble, the essays construct a cultural narrative of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing, while sharpening our understanding of both the Victorian and modern periods. The occasion of "Redefining the Moderns is to honor Joseph Wiesenfarth, distinguished literary critic and scholar who taught at the University of Wisconsin in Madison between 1970 and 2001.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(9)
Acknowledgments	9	(4)
Introduction	13	(16)
Ira B. Nadel
William Baker
Laughter in Pride and Prejudice	29	(15)
Paul Goetsch
God's Disappeared: Sing Tra, La, La, Tra La La	44	(15)
James R. Kincaid
Drink in David Copperfield	59	(16)
Gareth Cordery
``Nightplots'': Our Mutual Friend and Finnegans Wake	75	(14)
Ira B. Nadel
New George Eliot and George Henry Lewes Letters	89	(26)
William Baker
``Taking Off'' the Neighbors: Margaret Oliphant's Parody of Romola	115	(15)
Ilizabeth Winston
``The Honey of Romance'': Oscar Wilde as Poet and Novelist	130	(18)
James G. Nelson
The New Woman and the Female Detective: Grant Allen's Miss Cayley's Adventures (1899)	148	(17)
Joseph A. Kestner
Verbal and Other Manifestations: Further Thoughts on Ford/Pound/Ford	165	(16)
Max Saunders
Feeling and Performance in Wright's Native Son	181	(17)
Thomas H. Schaub
A Conversation with Margaret Drabble about jane Austen	198	(8)
Emily Auerbach
Margaret Drabble
About Joseph Wiesenfarth	206	(2)
William Baker
Bibliography of Works	208	(6)
Joseph Wiesenfarth
William Baker
Notes on Contributors	214	(3)
Index	217