Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 - 1930 (eBook)

Daniel R. Schwarz is Professor of English and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has won major teaching prizes. He is the author of the recently published Broadway Boogie Woogie (2003) and the widely read Imagining the Holocaust (1999; rev. edn 2000). His many previous publications include Rereading Conrad (2001), Reconfiguring Modernism (1997), The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890--1930 (1989; rev. edn 1995), and Reading Joyce's "Ulysses" (1987; Centenary edn 2004).

Introduction: Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel.

1 "I Was the World in Which I Walked": The
Transformation of the British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930.

2 Hardy's Jude the Obscure: The Beginnings of the
Modern Psychological Novel.

3 Conrad's Heart of Darkness: "We Live, as We
Dream - Alone".

4 Conrad's Lord Jim: Reading Texts, Reading
Lives.

5 Lawrence's Sons and Lovers: Speaking of Paul
Morel: Voice, Unity, and Meaning.

6 Lawrence's The Rainbow: Family Chronicle, Sexual
Fulfillment, and the Quest for Form and Values.

7 Joyce's Dubliners: Moral Paralysis in Dublin.

8 Joyce's Ulysses: The Odyssey of Leopold Bloom and
Stephen Dedalus on June 16, 1904.

9 Woolf's Mrs Dalloway: Sexual Repression, Madness,
and Social Form.

10 Woolf's To the Lighthouse: Choreographing Life
and Creating Art as Time Passes.

11 Forster's Passage to India: The Novel of Manners
as Political Novel.

Notes.

Select Bibliography.

"[Schwarz's introductions] humanize texts that might otherwise seem too foreboding ... The broadly diverse sense of human interest that results can only dispel any contrary sense of modernism's exclusivity, difficulty or autonomy." James Joyce Quarterly