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A survey of the diversities of Edwardian writing and how they fit into literary and cultural change. This book covers writers such as Conrad, Forster, Wells, Bennett, Shaw, Kipling, Tressell, Hardy, Yeats and Woolf. Modernists such as Lawrence and Mansfield are also included. The author combines literary criticism of writing in the Edwardian period with cultural assessments (for example, she examines imperialism and patriarchy), and sets her work in an historical context.

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title A Readers Guide to Edwardian Literature author Trodd - photo 1
title:A Reader's Guide to Edwardian Literature
author:Trodd, Anthea.
publisher:University of Calgary Press
isbn10 | asin:0919813895
print isbn13:9780919813892
ebook isbn13:9780585286112
language:English
subjectEnglish literature--20th century--History and criticism, Great Britain--History--Edward VII, 1901-1910.
publication date:1991
lcc:PR471.T7 1991eb
ddc:820.9/00912
subject:English literature--20th century--History and criticism, Great Britain--History--Edward VII, 1901-1910.
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A Reader's Guide to Edwardian Literature
Anthea Trodd
Lecturer in English, University of Keele
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1991 Anthea Trodd. All rights reserved
University of Calgary Press
2500 University Dr. N.W.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
A co-publication with Harvester Wheatsheaf
66 Wood Lane End, Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire, HP2 4RG
A division of
Simon and Schuster International Group
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Trodd, Anthea.
A reader's guide to Edwardian literature
ISBN 0-919813-89-5
1. English literature20th centuryHistory and criticism
I. Title.
PR471.T76 1991 820.900912 C91-091494-X
Cover Design: Rhae-Ann Bromley
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Introduction: Edwardianism
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The literary tradition
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The context of manliness
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The search for an audience
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The imperial identity
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Fiction and empire
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Conrad: Heart of Darkness
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Conrad: Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent
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Kipling: Kim
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Critics of empire: Shaw, Wells, Forster
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'The condition of England'
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Liberal commentaries: Howards End and Strife
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Socialist commentaries: Tressell and London
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Images of rural England: Utopias, Lawrence
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The country-house tradition: Tono-Bungay
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The importance of parricide
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Bennett: Clayhanger
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Narratives of parricide: Synge
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Defeated fathers: Butler, Gosse, Shaw, Barker, Barrie
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