Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-426) and index.
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The new novel / Henry James -- A parting of the ways / Raymond Williams -- Conrad and modern English fiction / David Thorburn -- Obscure writing and private life, 1880-1914 / Allon White -- Edwardian literature / John Batchelor -- Problematic presence : the colonial other in Kipling and Conrad / John McClure -- The late nineteenth century novel and the change towards the sexual -- Gissing, Hardy and Lawrence / L.R. Leavis -- A woven tapestry of interests / Peter Keating -- The other victim : Jude the obscure and The whirlpool / Annette Federico -- The pleasures of imperialism / Edward W. Said -- The opening world, 1900-1915 / Malcolm Bradbury -- The avoidance of naturalism : Gissing, Moore, Grand, Bennett, and others / David Trotter -- Incorporated bodies : Dracula and the rise of professionalism / Nicholas Daly -- Oscar Wilde's aesthetic gothic : Walter Pater, dark enlightenment, and The picture of Dorian Gray / John Paul Riquelme -- Emotion, gender, and ethics in fiction by Thomas Hardy and the new woman writers / Jil Larson -- Rainbow's end : the Janus period / Ruth Robbins.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Presents critical essays about the works of the leading novelists of the Edwardian and Georgian period in English history.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.