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Modernism and Naturalism in British and Irish Fiction, 1880–1930
Simon Joyce
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This book argues that the history of literary modernism is inextricably connected with naturalism. Simon Joyce traces a complex response among aesthetes to the work of Émile Zola at the turn of the century, recovering naturalism's assumed compatibility with impressionism as a central cause of their ambivalence. Highlighting a little-studied strain of reflexive naturalism in which Zola's mode of analytical observation is turned upon the authors themselves, Joyce suggests that the confluence of naturalism and impressionism formed the precondition for so-called stream-of-consciousness writing. This style served to influence not only the work of canonical modernists such as Joyce and Woolf, ... Read more
This book argues that the history of literary modernism is inextricably connected with naturalism. Simon Joyce traces a complex response among aesthetes to the work of Émile Zola at the turn of the century, recovering naturalism's assumed compatibility with impressionism as a central cause of their ambivalence. Highlighting a little-studied strain of reflexive naturalism in which Zola's mode of analytical observation is turned upon the authors themselves, Joyce suggests that the confluence of naturalism and impressionism formed the precondition for so-called stream-of-consciousness writing. This style served to influence not only the work of canonical modernists such as Joyce and Woolf, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107083882
SKU
V9781107083882
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Ref
99-2
About Simon Joyce
Simon Joyce is the Margaret Hamilton Professor of English at the College of William and Mary, Virginia. His previous books include Capital Offenses: Geographies of Class and Crime in Victorian London (2003) and The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror (2007).
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