| Description |
xvii, 477 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The Oxford English literary history ; v. 10
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Modern beginnings -- The modern literary market -- Modern authorship -- Modern English usage -- Modern poetry. Verse technique ; Hardy and Yeats ; Masefield, Brooke, Thomas, and 'Georgian' poetry ; Imagism and after: Pound, Eliot, Sitwell, and Lawrence ; W.H. Auden and the poetry of the thirties ; Trends, anthologies, and reputations -- Modern drama. From problem play to discussion play ; Comedy of manners: Maugham and Coward ; Historical and verse drama -- Modern short stories -- The modern novel: principles and methods -- The modern novel as social chronicle. Provincial chronicles and sagas ; Condition of England, industrial, and civic novels -- The modern psychological novel. Realism and the education novel ; High modernism, memory, and consciousness -- Modern romance, fable, and historical fiction. Romances of truancy ; Historical novels ; Fabulous romances ; Visionary romances -- Modern satire. Verse satire: Hardy, Eliot, and Sassoon ; Prose satire: Huxley, Waugh, and others -- Modern essays, biographies, memoirs, and travel books -- Modern entertainment: forms of light reading. Detective fiction ; The thriller ; Romantic love stories ; Comical prose fiction -- England and the English. Names for England ; England epitomized ; England explored ; The English character ; The English abroad -- The Great War. Survivals of heroic literature ; Four phases of war-writing ; Passivity, martyrology, and war myths -- Childhood and youth -- Sex and sexualities. Sex-talk in the Freudian age ; Realism, deviance, and censorship ; Erotic writing -- Retrospect: Three decades of modern realism. |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0198183100 |
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9780198183105 |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 26533120X |
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YDXCP 2108158 |
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