A History of the Modernist Novel [Hardcover]

This book reassesses the modernist canon and produces a wealth of new comparative analyses that radically revise the novel's history.A History of the Modernist Novel reassesses the modernist canon and produces a wealth of new comparative analyses that radically revise the novel's history. It also considers the novel's global reach while suggesting that the epoch of modernism is not yet finished.A History of the Modernist Novel reassesses the modernist canon and produces a wealth of new comparative analyses that radically revise the novel's history. It also considers the novel's global reach while suggesting that the epoch of modernism is not yet finished.A History of the Modernist Novel reassesses the modernist canon and produces a wealth of new comparative analyses that radically revise the novel's history. Drawing on American, English, Irish, Russian, French, and German traditions, leading scholars challenge existing attitudes about realism and modernism and draw new attention to everyday life and everyday objects. In addition to its exploration of new forms such as the modernist genre novel and experimental historical novel, this book considers the novel in postcolonial, transnational, and cosmopolitan contexts. A History of the Modernist Novel also considers the novel's global reach while suggesting that the epoch of modernism is not yet finished.1. The aesthetic novel, from Ouida to Firbank Joseph Bristow; 2. What is it like to be conscious? Impressionism and the problem of qualia Paul Armstrong; 3. Modernism and the French novel: a genealogy, 18881913 Jean-Michel Rabat?; 4. Russian modernism and the novel Leonid Livak; 5. Bootmakers and watchmakers: Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Woolf, and modernist fiction David Bradshaw; 6. 'A call and an answer': E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, and English modernism Howard J. Booth; 7. American literary realism: popularity and politics in a modernist frame Janet Galligani Casey; 8. Modernist domesticity: reconciling the paradl³¢