Modernism and the Fate of Individuality Character and Novelistic Form from Conrad to Woolf

Name: Modernism and the Fate of Individuality Character and Novelistic Form from Conrad to Woolf
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ISBN: 9780521609449

ISBN-10: 0521609445

ISBN-13: 9780521609449

Edition: 2004

Authors: Michael Levenson

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Michael Levenson, author of the acclaimed A Genealogy of Modernism, devotes this second book to the complex question of the self, the individual subject, as it undergoes various transitions throughout the period we designate 'modernist'. The book is an elaborate and compelling engagement with the problem of individuality in our age, structured around a sophisticated reading of eight major novels by Conrad, James, Forster, Madox Ford, Lewis, Lawrence, Joyce and Woolf. Professor Levenson takes account of the large body of modern theoretical writing on this topic, and his study will be of interest to theorists, cultural historians, and literary scholars in equal measure. It addresses issues…

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List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Michael Levenson is William B. Christian Professor of Modern Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Virginia.



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