David Lodge and the tradition of the modern novel / J. Russell Perkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perkin, J. Russell (James Russell), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lodge, David, 1935-2025--Criticism and interpretation.

Lodge, David.

Lodge, David, 1935-2025.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xi, 225 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]

Summary:

David Lodge is a much-loved novelist and influential literary critic. Examining his career from his earliest publications in the late 1950s to his more recent works, David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel identifies Lodge's central place within the canon of twentieth-century British literature. J. Russell Perkin argues that liberalism is the defining feature of Lodge's identity as a novelist, critic, and Roman Catholic intellectual, and demonstrates that Graham Greene, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis, Henry James, and H.G. Wells are the key influences on Lodge's fiction. Perkin also considers Lodge's relationship to contemporary British novelists, including Hilary Mantel, Julian Barnes, and Monica Ali. In a study that is both theoretically informed and accessible to the general reader, Perkin shows that Lodge's work is shaped by the dialectic of modernism and the realist tradition. Through an approach that draws on diverse theories of literary influence and history, David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel provides the most thorough treatment of the novelist's career to date. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Liberalism of David Lodge 3

2 Lodging in Greeneland 35

3 Lodge Rejoyces: David Lodge, James Joyce, and Ireland 62

4 "Dante and Beatrice in a Suburban Key": David Lodge and the 1950s 91

5 "The Art of Fiction": David Lodge and Henry James 122

6 A Novelist Still at the Crossroads 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-214) and index.

Other Format:

Perkin, J. Russell (James Russell), author. David Lodge.

ISBN:

9780773543195

0773543198

9780773543201

0773543201

OCLC:

863768166