Charts developments in literary realism between fin-de-siècle naturalism and early modernism by examining a wide range of realist novels from the Edwardian period, focusing in particular on works by Joseph Conrad, May Sinclair, Arnold Bennett, H.G....
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Charts developments in literary realism between fin-de-siècle naturalism and early modernism by examining a wide range of realist novels from the Edwardian period, focusing in particular on works by Joseph Conrad, May Sinclair, Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, and Ford Madox Ford. Cover -- Realism, Form, and Representation in the Edwardian Novel: Synthetic Realism -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- The map and the territory -- New century, new realism -- Atomized: a crisis of materialism -- Synthesized: 'not subjectively unreal' -- Chapter 1: Joseph Conrad: The Visible Universe -- 'Craftsmen as well as seers' -- 'Multitudinous tandems': Nostromo -- 'And what remains?' The Secret Agent -- 'Snaring the invisible into shape' -- Chapter 2: May Sinclair: The Finding of the Absolute -- 'The Reality I am looking for' -- 'Reality itself, pressed on the senses': The Divine Fire -- 'Victims of our own metaphors': The Creators -- 'In touch with the new' -- Chapter 3: Arnold Bennett: What Life Is -- 'Wonder in a hard hat and a business suit' -- 'The Usual miraculously transformed by Art into the Sublime': The Old Wives' Tale -- 'A flood of consciousness': Clayhanger -- 'Infantile realisms' -- Chapter 4: H. G. Wells: More Than History Can Pattern -- 'How it is done' -- 'Stirring up the dregs': Tono-Bungay -- 'Little life circles': Kipps and The History of Mr Polly -- 'Somewhere between politics and literature' -- Chapter 5: Ford Madox Ford: The Whole Impression -- 'A view of life as a whole?' -- 'Won't it make everything different?' A Call -- 'You don't tell me anything': The Good Soldier -- 'I didn't know what to say' -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.
