Reading the modern British and Irish novel, 1890-1930

Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction:Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 –1930......Page 13
1 “I Was the World in Which I Walked ”:The Transformation of the British and Irish Novel,1890 –1930......Page 30
2 Hardy ’s Jude the Obscure :The Beginnings of the Modern Psychological Novel......Page 49
3 Conrad ’s Heart of Darkness :“We Live,as We Dream – Alone ”......Page 63
4 Conrad ’s Lord Jim :Reading Texts,Reading Lives......Page 81
5 Lawrence ’s Sons and Lovers :Speaking of Paul Morel: Voice,Unity,and Meaning......Page 99
6 Lawrence ’s The Rainbow :Family Chronicle,Sexual Ful .llment, and the Quest for Form and Values......Page 121
7 Joyce ’s Dubliners :Moral Paralysis in Dublin......Page 141
8 Joyce ’s Ulysses :The Odyssey of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus on June 16,1904......Page 172
9 Woolf ’s Mrs Dalloway :Sexual Repression,Madness, and Social Form......Page 200
10 Woolf ’s To the Lighthouse :Choreographing Life and Creating Art as Time Passes......Page 225
11 Forster ’s Passage to India :The Novel of Manners as Political Novel......Page 249
Notes......Page 268
Select Bibliography......Page 279
Index......Page 298