- Paperback: 656 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (2 Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140296956
- ISBN-13: 978-0140296952
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 819,924 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bradbury argues that almost a century since the emergence of Modernism, it is now possible to see the entire period in perspective. It is clear that the first 50 years - from Henry James, Wilde and Stevenson, through James Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, to Huxley, Isherwood and Orwell - have been extensively discussed in print. The years since World War II, though, have not been examined in depth, yet have produced talents such as Graham Greene, Angus Wilson, Beckett, Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, Kingsley and Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Fay Weldon, Salman Rushdie and Timothy Mo. The author's concern to see the radical century of fiction as a developing whole enables him to discuss not only the major names, but to include in his overview writers on the fringe of the critical mainstream, or at the sharp edge of experiment, figures as various as Galsworthy, Firbank, Jean Rhys, Edward Upward, Lawrence Durrell, J.G. Ballard, B.S. Johnson and John le Carre.
About the Author
Malcolm Bradbury (CBE) is a novelist, critic, television dramatis and Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. His books include Eating People Is Wrong, The History Man, Rates of Exchange, The Modern American Novel, and The Atlas of Literature.
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It's a tragedy that this book is out of print!
I should have bought two copies - one to read and annotate - the other to keep in case I lost the thumbed one! This must be the best book written on the British novel this side of the millenium. Professor Bradbury stands (or should I say stood - he has since died) head and shoulders above the many experts and commentators who have written on this subject. If you want to know what to read, and why, then THIS is the book!
I should have bought two copies - one to read and annotate - the other to keep in case I lost the thumbed one! This must be the best book written on the British novel this side of the millenium. Professor Bradbury stands (or should I say stood - he has since died) head and shoulders above the many experts and commentators who have written on this subject. If you want to know what to read, and why, then THIS is the book!
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Adequate coverage of British novel
20 May 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Bradbury, an author himself, presents the evolution of the British novel from the late 1800s. He gives good summaries at the beginnings of each chapter, and each chapter builds on previous ones chronologically. He is sometimes spare in his treatment of authors we are more familiar with (e.g., Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf), and I suggest this because his other book "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers" gives much more on them. Also, his occasional bias, like against Bloombury, is jarring, but the book does introduce one to many British writers unknown across the Atlantic as well as bringing in adopted British writers like Rushdie. It does admirably well in its overall coverage for a single volume, and that is more than one could expect.
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