The Cambridge introduction to British fiction, 1900-1950 Caserio, Robert L. 1944- creator author. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. enk 2019 2019 monographic eng print xv, 285 pages ; 24 cm. "Examining the work of more than one hundred writers, in a wide variety of genres including detective, spy, gothic, fantasy, comic, and science fiction, this book is an unusually comprehensive introduction to the novels and short stories of the period. Providing fresh readings of famous modernist figures (Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Joyce, Woolf, Forster, Lawrence, and others), Robert L. Caserio also brings new attention to lesser-known writers who merit increased attention. He provides readers with an overview of modernist fiction's intellectual milieu, and addresses its contextualization by history and politics--feminism, global war, and the emergence of the welfare state after World War II. An ideal introduction for the student, this book offers a thought-provoking re-examination of literary history, and an exploration of the unique value of fiction's portrayals of the world"-- 1. British Narrative Fiction in Terms of "Period" and "Treatments" -- Interchapter 1. James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) -- 2. The Artist as Critic: Ideas of Fiction, 1890-1938 -- Interchapter 2. Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf -- 3. Seeing Modernism Through -- Interchapter 3. Short Stories by Rudyard Kipling and Katherine Mansfield -- 4. British Fiction amid Non-Fictional Discourses in the Era of Modernism -- Interchapter 4. British Fiction's Ideas of History, 1923-1946 -- 5. Entertaining Fictions -- Interchapter 5. Entertainments: Graham Greene, E.F. Benson, and Olaf Stapledon -- 6. Collective Welfare and Warfare: British Fiction 1936-1950 -- Coda: Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen and Angus Wilson. Robert L. Caserio. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1900-1999 fast English fiction 20th century History and criticism Englisch English fiction Kurzgeschichte Literatur Roman PR881 .C367 2019 823/.91209 Cambridge introductions to literature 1107029287 1107674123 9781107029286 9781107674127 2018035159 pda,print DLC 180723 20250318215141.0 in00004171032 eng