The British novel of ideas : George Eliot to Zadie Smith / edited by Rachel Potter, University of East Anglia ; Matthew Taunton, University of East Anglia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Potter, Rachel (Rachel C.), editor.

Taunton, Matthew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Philosophy in literature.

Thought and thinking in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

x, 491 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"The Novel of Ideas is an important form that is both under-theorised and largely neglected in accounts of the development of the novel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Through new accounts of key novelists in the tradition, this book celebrates the diversity, inventiveness, and vitality of the novel of ideas"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

In memoriam : Glyn Salton-Cox (1983-2022) / Rachel Potter and Matthew Taunton

Part I. 1850-1900 : philosophy, moral reflection, and the Victorian novel of ideas. Moral ideation in the nineteenth-century British novel : rethinking character-character dialogue / Amanda Anderson

George Eliot : realism and dialectics / Ruth Abbott

Samuel Butler : ideas against themselves / John Kucich

George Gissing : idealism and social reform / Benjamin Kohlmann

Part II. 1900-1945 : the novel of ideas, revolution, and reform. The British novel of ideas in an international context / Rachel Potter

H. G. Wells : exposition and dialogue / Suzanne Hobson

G. K. Chesterton : tradition and ideals / Christos Hadjiyiannis

E. M. Forster : liberal propositions and liberal proceduralism / Janice Ho

Aldous Huxley : mysticism and science / Jake Poller

Katharine Burdekin : self and not self / Glyn Salton-Cox

Mulk Raj Anand : anti-colonialism and abjection / Anindya Raychaudhuri

Storm Jameson : fascism and liberalism / Katherine Cooper

Part III. 1945-1975 : the novel of ideas in the Cold War. The psycho-political novel of ideas and the Second World War / Adam Piette

Naomi Mitchison : nation and history / James Purdon

George Orwell : politics and power / Nathan Waddell

Rebecca West : trials and retribution / Allan Hepburn

George Lamming : colonialism and rumination / Douglas Mao

Doris Lessing : espionage and speculative fiction / Peter Kalliney

Iris Murdoch : philosophy and the novel / David Dwan

Part IV. 1975-present : the contemporary novel of ideas. Comedy, sincerity, and hypocrisy in the novel of ideas / Matthew Taunton

Malcolm Bradbury : sociology and satire / Nicoletta Pireddu

Hanif Kureishi : fundamentalism and multiculturalism / Michael Perfect

Ian McEwan : ideation and realism / Dominic Head

Kamila Shamsie : citizenship and civil rights / Birgit Breidenbach

Zadie Smith : art and beauty / Peter Boxall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781316514320

1316514323

9781009078085

1009078089

OCLC:

1425237595