Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf

by Parsons; Deborah

• ISBN13: 9780415285438
• ISBN10: 0415285437
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-12-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In the early twentieth century the Modernist novel tested literary conventions and expectations, challenging representations of reality, consciousness and identity. These novels were not simply creative masterpieces, however, but also crucial articulations of revolutionary developments in critical thought. Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers. Exploring the connections between their theories, Parsons pays particular attention to their work on: - forms of realism - characters and consciousness - gender and the novel - time and history. An understanding of these three thinkers is fundamental to a grasp on modernism, making this an indispensable guide for students of modernist thought. It is also essential reading for those who wish to understand debates about the genre of the novel or the nature of literary expression, which were given a new impetus by the pioneering figures of Joyce, Richardson and Woolf.

Author Biography

Deborah Parsons is a senior lecturer and chair of postgraduate programmes at the University of Birmingham, UK

Table of Contents

Series editor's preface	p. vii
Why Joyce, Woolf and Richardson?	p. 1
Key Ideas	p. 19
A New Realism	p. 21
Character and Consciousness	p. 55
Gender and the Novel	p. 81
Time and History	p. 109
After Joyce	p. 133
Notes	p. 137
Further Reading	p. 139
Works cited	p. 147
Index	p. 159
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