1st Edition

Theorists of the Modernist Novel James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf

By Deborah Parsons Copyright 2007
176 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers. Exploring the connections between their theories, Parsons pays particular attention to their work on: forms of realism characters and consciousness gender and the novel... Read more

Why Joyce, Woolf and Richardson?  Key Ideas  1. A New Realism.  Realism and Reality.  Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism.  2. Character and Consciousness  3. Gender and the Novel  4. Time and History  After Joyce  Further Reading.  Works Cited

Biography

Deborah Parsons

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007

"A clear, concise introduction to modernist views of the novel"

J. W. Moffett, Kentucky Wesleyan College, for CHOICE magazine, Sep 2007, vol 45, no. 01, p. 374.

 "This one does an amazing job precisely because it manages to prepare readers without taking the sense of discovery away. Parsons is the kind of guide you want for an introduction of this sort: clear, focused, balanced, learned, and attuned to her audience's needs."
--James Joyce Quarterly