Moderns - Chaucer to Contemporary Fiction / A. Robert Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, A. Robert, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2025]

Summary:

Boldly explores the multiple kinds of 'modern' that have contributed to English literary tradition from the medieval era to the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Modern

1. Medieval Modern: Chaucer and 'Sir Thopas'

2. My Lady Mistress: Dame Philology. John Skelton

3. Mind's Eye: Hamlet and Modernity

4. New Made Idiom: John Donne

5. A Great Quantity of Heterogeneous Matter: Laurence Sterne

6. E ra Moderns: Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Peacock

7. Like Nobody But Himself: Modern William Hazlitt

8. O ut of Victorianism: Samuel Butler, Lytton Strachey, Ford Madox Ford

9. Cracked Bells and Really Intelligent Detonators: The Modern of Conrad's The Secret Agent

10. Women's Modern: Mina Loy, Dorothy Richardson, Jean Rhys

11. Postmodern Modern: B.S. Johnson, Ann Quin

12. Contemporary Modern: Six Fictions

Epilogue

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9781399543835

1399543830

9781399543828

1399543822