The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

doi:10.1017/CCOL052185444X

The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. No one technique or style defines a novel as modernist. Instead, these essays explain the formal innovations, stylistic preferences and thematic concerns which unite modernist fiction. They also show how modernist novels relate to other forms of art, and to the social and cultural context from which they emerged. Alongside chapters on prominent novelists such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, as well as lesser-known authors such as Dorothy Richardson and Djuna Barnes, themes such as genre and geography, time and consciousness are discussed in detail. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this is the most accessible and informative overview of the genre available.

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Frontmatter
pp i-xx
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Reading the modernist novel: an Introduction
pp 1-14
- By Morag Shiach
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1 - Modernists on the art of fiction
pp 15-31
- By Jeff Wallace
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2 - Early modernism
pp 32-47
- By Peter Brooker
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3 - Remembrance and tense past
pp 48-64
- By Ann Banfield
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4 - Consciousness as a stream
pp 65-81
- By Anne Fernihough
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5 - The legacies of modernism
pp 82-98
- By Laura Marcus
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KEY NOVELISTS
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6 - James Joyce and the languages of modernism
pp 99-111
- By Katherine Mullin
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7 - Tradition and revelation: moments of being in Virginia Woolf’s major novels
pp 112-125
- By Meg Jensen
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8 - Wyndham Lewis and modernist satire
pp 126-136
- By Rebecca Beasley
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9 - D. H. Lawrence: organicism and the modernist novel
pp 137-150
- By Hugh Stevens
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10 - Joseph Conrad’s half-written fictions
pp 151-164
- By Jeremy Hawthorn
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11 - Djuna Barnes: melancholic modernism
pp 165-177
- By Deborah Parsons
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12 - William Faulkner: an impossibly comprehensive expressivity
pp 178-190
- By Catherine Gunther Kodat
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13 - Writing lives: Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, Gertrude Stein
pp 191-205
- By Howard Finn
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14 - C. L. R. James, Claude McKay, Nella Larsen, Jean Toomer the ‘black Atlantic’ and the modernist novel
pp 206-223
- By Anna Snaith
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15 - Situating Samuel Beckett
pp 224-237
- By Lois Oppenheim
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Further reading
pp 238-242
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Index
pp 243-249
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-xx

Reading the modernist novel: an Introduction
pp 1-14

1 - Modernists on the art of fiction
pp 15-31

2 - Early modernism
pp 32-47

3 - Remembrance and tense past
pp 48-64

4 - Consciousness as a stream
pp 65-81

5 - The legacies of modernism
pp 82-98

KEY NOVELISTS

6 - James Joyce and the languages of modernism
pp 99-111

7 - Tradition and revelation: moments of being in Virginia Woolf’s major novels
pp 112-125

8 - Wyndham Lewis and modernist satire
pp 126-136

9 - D. H. Lawrence: organicism and the modernist novel
pp 137-150

10 - Joseph Conrad’s half-written fictions
pp 151-164

11 - Djuna Barnes: melancholic modernism
pp 165-177

12 - William Faulkner: an impossibly comprehensive expressivity
pp 178-190

13 - Writing lives: Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, Gertrude Stein
pp 191-205

14 - C. L. R. James, Claude McKay, Nella Larsen, Jean Toomer the ‘black Atlantic’ and the modernist novel
pp 206-223

15 - Situating Samuel Beckett
pp 224-237

Further reading
pp 238-242

Index
pp 243-249

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