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A History of the Modernist Novel
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1. The aesthetic novel, from Ouida to Firbank Joseph Bristow; 2. What is it like to be conscious? Impressionism and the problem of qualia Paul Armstrong; 3. Modernism and the French novel: a genealogy, 1888–1913 Jean-Michel Rabaté; 4. Russian modernism and the novel Leonid Livak; 5. Bootmakers and watchmakers: Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Woolf, and modernist fiction David Bradshaw; 6. 'A call and an answer': E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, and English modernism Howard J. Booth; 7. American literary realism: popularity and politics in a modernist frame Janet Galligani Casey; 8. Modernist domesticity: reconciling the paradox in Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Nella Larsen Deborah Clarke; 9. Energy, stress, and modernist style Enda Duffy; 10. Modernist materialism: war, gender, and representation Anne Fernihough; 11. Serial modernism Sean Latham; 12. Translation and the modernist novel Emily O. Wittman; 13. Modernist style and the 'inward turn' in German-language fiction Ritchie Robertson; 14. Mann's modernism Todd Kontje; 15. Democratic form and narrative proportion in Joyce and Dos Passos Samuel Alexander; 16. The modernist genre novel David Earle; 17. Modernism and historical fiction: the case of H. D. Lara Vetter; 18. The modernist novel in its contemporaneity Pamela L. Caughie; 19. The modernist novel in the world-system Lara Winkiel; 20. Modernist cosmopolitanism Jessica Berman; 21. Modernism and the big house Nicholas Allen; 22. In the wake of Joyce: Beckett, O'Brien, and the late modernist novel Patrick Bixby; 23. Destinies of Bildung: belatedness and the modernist novel Gregory Castle.

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This book reassesses the modernist canon and produces a wealth of new comparative analyses that radically revise the novel's history.

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Gregory Castle is Professor of British and Irish Literature at Arizona State University. He is the author of Modernism and the Celtic Revival, Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman, The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory, and The Literary Theory Handbook. He has also published in such journals as Genre, the Theatre Journal, James Joyce Quarterly, and Modern Fiction Studies. He is currently working on essays on Bram Stoker's Dracula, Oscar Wilde's American Tour of 1881, W. B. Yeats' poetry, Irish Revivalism, Irish modernism, and Assia Djebar's Algerian Quartet.

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