A sense of shock : the impact of Impressionism on modern British and Irish writing /
Parkes, Adam,1966-
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A sense of justice": Ruskin, Whistler, and James -- "A chain of secret influences": Pater's disciples -- "Fugitive imaginings": art, nationhood, and George Moore's racial instincts -- "Shocks and surprises": Conrad, terrorism and languages of sensation -- "Violent moments of being": Woolf, Pater, and Fry -- "The typical man of this period": Ford's depression -- Epilogue: Bowen's demolished moment.
English literature
English literature
Art and literature
Art and literature
Impressionism in literature.
Visualization in literature.
Imagery (Psychology) in literature.
Impressionism.
Modernism (Literature)