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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Request in advance | PR478.M6 M4 1987 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 263 p.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- 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