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In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust
Barry McCrea
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Description for In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust
Paperback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 376.
In the Company of Strangers shows how a reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary experiments of the modernist novel. While stories of marriage and long-lost relatives were a mainstay of classic Victorian fiction, Barry McCrea suggests that rival countercurrents within these family plots set the stage for the formal innovations of Joyce and Proust. Tracing the challenges to the family plot mounted by figures such as Fagin, Sherlock Holmes, Leopold Bloom, and Charles Swann, McCrea tells the story of how bonds generated by chance encounters between strangers come to take over the role of organizing narrative time and ... Read more
In the Company of Strangers shows how a reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary experiments of the modernist novel. While stories of marriage and long-lost relatives were a mainstay of classic Victorian fiction, Barry McCrea suggests that rival countercurrents within these family plots set the stage for the formal innovations of Joyce and Proust. Tracing the challenges to the family plot mounted by figures such as Fagin, Sherlock Holmes, Leopold Bloom, and Charles Swann, McCrea tells the story of how bonds generated by chance encounters between strangers come to take over the role of organizing narrative time and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Modernist Latitudes
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231157636
SKU
V9780231157636
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About Barry McCrea
Barry McCrea is associate professor of comparative literature and English at Yale University and author of a novel, The First Verse.
Reviews for In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust
McCrea's work, original, well considered and detailed, offers fresh insight into vital, complex texts and brings queer theory usefully into contemporary debate when reconsidering such influential works.
Eibhear Walshe Irish Times Elegant... I recommend In the Company of Strangers both for its clarity, readability, and sophistication and for bringing to bear on Victorian texts important new insights from the ... Read more
Eibhear Walshe Irish Times Elegant... I recommend In the Company of Strangers both for its clarity, readability, and sophistication and for bringing to bear on Victorian texts important new insights from the ... Read more