The Modern British Novel by Malcolm Bradbury

The Modern British Novel by Malcolm Bradbury

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Bradbury argues that, almost a century after the emergence of Modernism, it is now possible to see the entire period in perspective. His concern to see this century of fiction as a developing whole enables him to discuss both the major names, and writers on the fringe of the critical mainstream.

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The Modern British Novel by Malcolm Bradbury

Bradbury argues that almost a century since the emergence of Modernism, it is now possible to see the entire period in perspective. It is clear that the first 50 years - from Henry James, Wilde and Stevenson, through James Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, to Huxley, Isherwood and Orwell - have been extensively discussed in print. The years since World War II, though, have not been examined in depth, yet have produced talents such as Graham Greene, Angus Wilson, Beckett, Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, Kingsley and Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Fay Weldon, Salman Rushdie and Timothy Mo. The author's concern to see the radical century of fiction as a developing whole enables him to discuss not only the major names, but to include in his overview writers on the fringe of the critical mainstream, or at the sharp edge of experiment, figures as various as Galsworthy, Firbank, Jean Rhys, Edward Upward, Lawrence Durrell, J.G. Ballard, B.S. Johnson and John le Carre.
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ISBN 13 9780436201325
ISBN 10 0436201321
Title The Modern British Novel
Author Malcolm Bradbury
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 1993-10-25
Number of pages 528
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