Modernism and Naturalism in British and Irish Fiction, 1880-1930
Modernism and Naturalism in British and Irish Fiction, 1880-1930 This book argues that the history of literary modernism is inextricably connected with naturalism. Highlighting a little-studied…
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Modernism and Naturalism in British and Irish Fiction, 1880-1930
This book argues that the history of literary modernism is inextricably connected with naturalism. 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. Simon Joyce traces a complex response among aesthetes to the work of mile Zola at the turn of the century, recovering naturalism's assumed compatibility with impressionism as a central cause of their ambivalence.
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
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