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The myth of the modern : a study in British literature and criticism after 1850 / Perry Meisel.

Title
The myth of the modern : a study in British literature and criticism after 1850 / Perry Meisel.
Author
Meisel, Perry
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, c1987.

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Description
x, 263 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain
  • English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Criticism > Great Britain > History
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 247-255.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • 3. The Bloomsbury Novel and the Production of the Real: "Psychic Economy". Howard's End: Private World?s and Public Language; Deferred Action on To the Lighthouse; Eminent Victorians: Strachey's Counterplot; Victor/Victoria; The Earl of Essence.
  • 4. Conrad as a Pedagogy of Reading: The Myth of Heart of Darkness; The Secret Sharer: ?Something Against Nature?; Decentering Heart of Darkness: Modernism as Metacriticism.
  • Discusses the following: Matthew Arnold; Bloomsbury group; Joseph Conrad; T. S. Eliot; E. M. Forster; Freud, Thomas Hardy; James Joyce; D. H. Lawrence; Pater, Walter; Strachey, Lytton; Virginia Woolf.
ISBN
  • 0300039468 (alk. paper)
  • 0300045603 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^87010617^
OCLC
  • 15628944
  • SCSB-10504113
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library