Arnold Bennett's Fiction: From the Potteries to Literary Success

ISBN-13: 9783034345965 / Angielski

Francesco Marroni; Francesca D'Alfonso

Opis

This monograph is focused on Arnold Bennett's fiction whose literary role was very important in the history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century novel in light of the debate between modernism and traditional approach to the craft of fiction.

Spis treści

Francesca D'Alfonso - Fiction and realism according to Arnold Bennett- Character formation and narrative ambiguity in Anna of the Five Towns-Time and places in The Old Wives' Tale-The "Grim Smile" of the Potteries: A Reading of "The Silent Brothers" and "The Death of Simon Fuge" -Accident: an adventure and its variations

O autorze

Francesca D'Alfonso is an Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Molise (Italy). Her main fields of research are late Victorian literature and culture and the American novel of the twentieth century, especially with regard to Italian American writers (John Fante, Nino Ricci, etc.). She is a member of CUSVE (Centre for Victorian and Edwardian Studies).