Outside Modernism: In Pursuit of the English Novel, 1900-30

by L. Hapgood (Editor), N. Paxton (Editor)

Overview

Outside Modernism presents eleven original essays which re-evaluate the range of English novels written between 1900 and 1930, assigned by critics to a space outside modernism. Drawing on critical perspectives as various as postmodernism, feminism, Marxism, queer theory and cultural theory, these essays argue for a new and inclusive context for understanding the development of English fiction in this period. This collection is the result of a transatlantic intellectual partnership which offers a stimulating interrogation of the cultural work performed by literary modernism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333794135
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/05/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

LYNNE HAPGOOD is Head of the English Division at the Nottingham Trent University. In 1993 she won a Fullbright Award for a semester at Northern Arizona University where her collaboration with Nancy Paxton began. Her essays have appeared in several books and important journals such as Literature and History, Literature and Theology and Journal of Victorian Culture.

NANCY PAXTON is Professor of English at Northern Arizona University. She is author of George Eliot and Herbert Spencer: Feminism, Evolutionism, and the Reconstruction of Gender, and Writing under the Raj: Gender, Race, and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947.

Table of Contents

Preface Notes on the Contributors PART I: MODERN/MODERNIST Eclipsed by Modernism; N.L.Paxton Transforming the Victorian; L.Hapgood PART II: HISTORY/TIME Continuity and Rupture in English Novels of the First World War; F.Manning, J.Rignall& R.H.Mottram G.K.Chesterton and the Terrorist Outside Modernism; R.Caserio PART III: GENDER/SEXUALITY Engendering Modernism: The Vernacular Modernism of Radclyffe Hall; R.Dellamora Writing Around Modernism; M.Sinclair, L.Pykett& R.West Delimiting Modernism and the Literary Field: D.H.Lawrence and The Lost Gir l; A.Ardis PART IV: GEOGRAPHY/SPACE Pan and the Open Road: Critical Paganism in R.L. Stevenson, K.Grahame, E.Thomas and E.M.Forster; W.Greenslade The Unwritten Suburb: Defining Spaces in John Galsworthy's The Man of Property; L.Hapgood Reconsidering Colonial Romance: Maud Diver and the 'Ethnographic Real'; N.L.Paxton PART V: EPILOGUE From Realism to Radicalism; P.Hamilton, H.Green, J.Lucas& S.T.Warner Bibliography Index