The Blinding Torch : Modern British Fiction and the Discourse of Civilization

ISBN-13: 9780870238314 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 208 str.

Brian W. Shaffer

Opis

From the end of the 19th century until World War II, questions concerning the ideal nature and current state of civilisation preoccupied the British public. In a work of both cultural and literary criticism, Shaffer explores this debate, showing how representative novels of five British modernists - Joseph Conrad, D.H, Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Malcolm Lowry - address the same issues that engaged such social theorists as Herbert Spencer, Oswald Spengler, Clive Bell and Sigmund Freud.