Transatlantic Modernism
Subtitle: Moral Dilemmas in Modernist Fiction
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: March 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780748623938
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General
First sentence: Published in 1891, Thomas Hardy's novel of tragic heroism, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, stylistically reflects the nineteenth-century mode of literary realism but also foreshadows some of the major moral concerns of early twentieth-century modernism.