202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature and questions how we can begin to account for the forms of obscurity and difficulty which developed in the late 19 th Century and which became so important to modernism. The author argues that the decline of realism entailed the growth of ‘symptomatic’ or ‘subtextual’ reading... Read more
1. Obscurity and Enlightenment 2. Obscure Writing and Private Life, 1880-1914 3. Truth and Impurity 4. ‘Godiva’ to the Gossips: Meredith and the Language of Shame 5. Conrad and the Rhetoric of Enigma 6. ‘The Deterrent Fact’: Vulgarity and Obscurity in James.
Biography
Allon White
‘The outcome is a criticism which is pleasantly unpretentious, yet well able to handle sophisticated theory…’ Jeremy Lane, The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol 15.
‘White has given the reader abundant food and numerous directions for thought.’ Eugene Hollahan, Studies in the Novel, Vol 14, No. 3.
