A sense of shock
Subtitle: the impact of Impressionism on modern British and Irish writing
By: Adam Parkes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780195383812
Subjects: Impressionism; Art and literature; Impressionism in literature; English literature; Imagery (Psychology) in literature; History and criticism; Visualization in literature; Modernism (Literature); History
Description: Examines the various, complex relations between impressionist texts and contexts in modern British and Irish works by Bowen Conrad, Ford, James, Wilde, Woolf, and others, to argue that literary impressionism was an emphatically historical phenomenon.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: "A sense of justice": Ruskin, Whistler, and James; title: "A chain of secret influences": Pater's disciples; title: "Fugitive imaginings": art, nationhood, and George Moore's racial instincts; title: "Shocks and surprises": Conrad, terrorism and languages of sensation; title: "Violent moments of being": Woolf, Pater, and Fry; title: "The typical man of this period": Ford's depression; title: Epilogue: Bowen's demolished moment.