Contents

Editors’ Preface

Longman Literature in English Series

Author’s Preface

1 Introduction

2 Surviving Giants: Hardy and James

3 Joseph Conrad and the Politics of Power

4 Rudyard Kipling: Imperial Responsibility and Literary Escape

5 E. M. Forster: The Proclamations of the Liberal Agnostic

6 Fictional Politics and some Minor Forms

7 Arnold Bennett on the Pentonville Omnibus

8 Virginia Woolf and the Search for Essences

9 Modernism and its Implications

10 James Joyce, the Professors and the Common Reader

11 The Reading Public and the Rise of a Profession

12 D. H. Lawrence: Our Bert versus Our Lorenzo

13 The 1930s: An Aftermath

Chronology

General Bibliographies

(i) Historical and political background

(ii) Cultural background

(iii) Studies of fiction in general

(iv) General studies of literature, 1890–1940

(v) Studies of fiction, 1890–1940

(vi) Bibliographies

Individual Authors

Notes on biography, major works, and criticism

Index