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NUMBER FIVE Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities William T. Pilkington, Series Editor
title
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Larry McMurtry and the Victorian Novel Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities ; No. 5
author
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Jones, Roger Walton.
publisher
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Texas A&M University Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0890966214
print isbn13
:
9780890966211
ebook isbn13
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9780585174556
language
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English
subject
McMurtry, Larry--Knowledge--Literature, English fiction--19th century--Appreciation--United States, American fiction--English influences.
publication date
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1994
lcc
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PS3563.A319Z73 1994eb
ddc
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813/.54
subject
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McMurtry, Larry--Knowledge--Literature, English fiction--19th century--Appreciation--United States, American fiction--English influences.
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Larry McMurtry and the Victorian Novel
By Roger Walton Jones
Texas A & M University Press College Station
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Copyright (c) 1994 by Roger Walton Jones Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved First edition
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jones, Roger Walton, 1953 Larry McMurtry and the Victorian novel / by Roger Walton Jones. p. cm. (Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; no. 5) Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.) Texas A&M University. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-89096-621-4 1. McMurtry, LarryKnowledgeLiterature. 2. English fiction19th centuryAppreciationUnited States. 3. American fictionEnglish influences. I. Title. II. Series. PS3563.A319Z73 1994 1st ed. 813.54-dc20 94-15607 CIP
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This book is dedicated to Chatham Township, New Jersey, my hometown, and to my mother for encouraging my love of books.
Tell me what the artist is, and I will tell you of what he has been conscious. Henry James
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Contents
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Chapter One Expanding Horizons
3
Chapter Two The Last Picture Show: The Relation of the Individual to Society
8
Chapter Three Lonesome Dove: The Conflict between Civilization and Nature
29
Chapter Four "Angels near the Star": The Search for Transcendence
50
Chapter Five Returning Home
72
Notes
79
References
85
Index
89
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Preface
I was on an Amtrak train headed to New York when I first read Terms of Endearment. I had never been to Texas, but something about the way this sensitive author wrote made me care instantly about this strange place Aurora couldn't control. My train that day was headed to New York, but it might as well have been headed toward Texas, for already the spark had been lit for me concerning this unique place and its author.
In a way McMurtry and I were headed in opposite directions though I didn't know it at the time. He had headed East even as I soon found myself accepting a teaching job in his native state. As fate would have it, when I finally returned to graduate school to get my doctorate at Texas A& M, McMurtry was already completing the novel Lonesome Dove which would earn him the Pulitzer. That prize made it easy for me to get permission to write a dissertion on him, but I was still vaguely frustrated that it took such an event to release McMurtry from the restricted label of regional writer.
From the beginning, part of my goal, therefore, was to treat McMurtry in an original way, without condescension, by focusing on those underlying thematic concerns which haunt the artist's work regardless of setting. Perhaps my undergraduate training at Kenyon College, where New Criticism once reigned, played a role in this. In any case, my surprise discovery of an early, unpublished short story entitled "Angels near the Star: A Prelude to Remembrance" became my starting point, for its poigmant combination of religious yearning and frustrated spirituality provided an important look inside McMurtry's heart and soul, a window through which I would come to understand his later work. And indeed, the ways in which McMurtry himself was reflected in his subsequent work, and their connection to the author's lifellong interest in the Victorian novel, became the focus of my book. My last major chapter returns to where I began, with an in-depth look at "Angels near the Star." Ultimately, my study almost began to write itself as I investigated McMurtry's works, ranging the entire
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spectrum of his career. Perhaps because I found the journey so exhilarating, througout it my attention remained more on McMurtry and his writing than on references to specific Victorian authors and their novels which may have influenced him. While some striking parallels are suggested, especially regarding Thomas Hardy and George Eliot, they are not intended to be exhaustive or even this study's first concern. Rather, as I state in my introduction, my primary purpose was to attempt to pinpoint what attracted McMurtry, a product of a distinct culture in a state of transition, to "the sense of a world" such novels convey.
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