Fiction & the Colonial Experience

ISBN-13: 9781032190907 / Miękka / 2023 / 158 str.

Jeffrey Meyers

Opis

British colonialism provided a rich vein of material for the novelists of the first half of the 20^th century. This study, originally published in 1968, looks at five writers and their reaction to the Empire: Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene.

Recenzje

‘His chapters on Forster and Conrad are original and accomplished.’ M. M. Mahood, Research in African Literatures

‘His work is a major contribution to our knowledge of British fiction and the colonial experience.’ Bruce E. Teets, Central Washington State College, USA.

‘…the critique of Forster by Meyers…. (is) among the most valuable we have.’ Frederick P. W. McDowell, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 .

Spis treści

1. Rudyard Kipling: Codes of Heroism 2. E. M. Forster: A Passage to India 3. Joseph Conrad: The Meaning of Civilization 4. Joyce Cary: Authority and Freedom 5. Graham Green: The Decline of the Colonial Novel

O autorze

Since 1992 Jeffrey Meyers has been a professional writer in Berkeley, California. He is one of ten Americans who are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2005 received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 'to honor exceptional achievement.' Professor Meyers has published 54 books and 1,080 articles on art, film, and modern American, English and European literature. His wide range of interests include bibliography, editing, literary criticism and biography.