Title: English fiction of the early modern period 1890-1940 /
Authors: Hewitt, Douglas John, 1920-
Publisher: Longman,
Year: 1988
Subjects: English fiction History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) Great Britain; English fiction History and criticism.
Contents: Surviving giants: Hardy and James -- Joseph Conrad and the politics of power -- Rudyard Kipling: imperial responsibility and literary escape -- E.M. Forster: the proclamations of the liberal agnostic -- Fictional politics and some minor forms -- Arnold Bennett on the Pentonville omnibus -- Virginia Woolf and the search for the common reader -- Modernism and its implications -- James Joyce, the professors and the common reader -- The reading public and the rise of a profession -- D.H. Lawrence: our Bert versus our Lorenzo -- The 1930s: an aftermath.