| Contents |
Introduction. Matter in motion in the modernist novel / Gregory Castle -- Part I. Modernism and the challenge to the real -- 1. The aesthetic novel, from Ouida to Firbank / Joseph Bristow -- 2. What is it like to be conscious?: impressionism and the problem of qualia / Paul Armstrong -- 3. Modernism and the French novel: a genealogy (1888-1913) / Jean-Michel Rabaté -- 4. Russian modernism and the novel / Leonid Livak -- Part II. Realism in transition -- 5. Bootmakers and watchmakers: Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Woolf, and modernist fiction / David Bradshaw -- 6. "A call and an answer": E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, and English modernism / Howard J. Booth -- 7. American literary realism: popularity and politics in a modernist frame / Janet G. Casey -- 8. Modernist domesticity: reconciling the paradox in Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Nella Larsen / Deborah Clarke -- Part III. The matter of modernism -- 9. Energy, stress, and modernist style / Enda Duffy -- 10. Modernist materialism: war, gender, and representation in Woolf, West, and H.D. / Anne Fernihough -- 11. Serial modernism / Sean Latham -- 12. Translation and the modernist novel / Emily O. Wittman -- Part IV. Modernism, genre, and form -- 13. Modernist style and the "inward turn" in German-language fiction / Ritchie Robertson -- 14. Mann's modernism / Todd Kontje -- 15. Democratic form and narrative proportion in Joyce and Dos Passos / Sam Alexander -- 16. The modernist genre novel / David M. Earle -- 17. Modernism and historical fiction: the case of H.D. / Lara Vetter -- Part V. Modernism in transit -- 18. The modernist novel in its contemporaneity / Pamela L. Caughie -- 19. The modernist novel in the world-system / Laura Winkiel -- 20. Modernist cosmopolitanism / Jessica Berman -- 21. Modernism and the big house / Nicholas Allen -- 22. In the wake of Joyce: Beckett, O'Brien, and the late modernist novel / Patrick Bixby -- 23. Destinies of Bildung: belatedness and the modernist novel / Gregory Castle. |
