Friendship and the novel / edited by Allan Hepburn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hepburn, Allan, editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Friendship in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Friendship and the Novel: Plot, Feeling, Form

Part One. Patterns

1 Between Women and Men: George Eliot's Friendships

2 Faux Amis in Charlotte Brontë's Villette

3 Friendship, Liberalism, and the Novel: A Passage to India

Part Two. American Examples

4 Henry James's Ficelles as Friends

5 Willa Cather and the Posterity of Friendship

Part Three. Modern Instances

6 The Friendship of Joseph Conrad and André Gide: From Admiration to Disillusion and Back

7 The Elusive Figure of Friendship in Virginia Woolf's Novels

8 Charles Ryder's Sentimental Education: The Lessons of Friendship in Brideshead Revisited

9 Muriel Spark's Ensembles

Part Four. Contemporary Friendships

10 Critical Distance, Reparative Proximity: Changing Representations of Queer Friendship

11 The European Generation X Novel

Afterword. Friendship: A Coda

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 29, 2024).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Friendship and the novel.

ISBN:

9780228020080

0228020085

9780228020073

0228020077

Publisher Number:

40032273393

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.