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Modernism and Naturalism in British and Irish Fiction, 1880–1930
About this book
This book argues that the history of literary modernism is inextricably connected with naturalism. Simon Joyce traces a complex response among aesthetes to the work of Émile Zola at the turn of the century, recovering naturalism's assumed compatibility with impressionism as a central cause of their ambivalence. Highlighting a little-studied strain of reflexive naturalism in which Zola's mode of analytical observation is turned upon the authors themselves, Joyce suggests that the confluence of naturalism and impressionism formed the precondition for so-called stream-of-consciousness writing. This style served to influence not only the work of canonical modernists such as Joyce and Woolf, but also that of lesser-known writers such as George Moore, Sarah Grand, and George Egerton.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A modernism on all fours
- 1 How Zola crossed (and didn’t cross) the English Channel
- 2 Portraits and artists: Impressionism and naturalism
- 3 A naturalism for Ireland
- 4 Photo-sensitivity: Naturalism, aestheticism, and the New Woman novel
- 5 The voice of witlessness: Virginia Woolf and the poor
- Afterword: Nietzsche contra naturalism (contra Nietzscheans)
- Notes
- Index