James J Miracky

Regenerating the Novel

Gender and Genre in Woolf, Forster, Sinclair, and Lawrence

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Produktbeschreibung

In this exploration of the most innovative and iconoclastic modernist fiction, James J. Miracky studies the ways in which cultural forces and discourses of gender inflect the practice and theory of four British novelists: Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, May Sinclair, and D. H. Lawrence. Building on analyses of gender theory and formal innovation in Virginia Woolf's novels, this book examines Forster's "queered" use of fantasy, Sinclair's representation of "manly genius" in both male and female streams of consciousness, and Lawrence's quest for the novel of "phallic consciousness." Reading each author's fiction alongside his or her theoretical writing, Miracky provides four diverse examples of how literary modernism wrestled with the "gender crisis" of the early twentieth century.

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415942058
• ISBN-10: 0415942055
• Artikelnr.: 22281505

Autorenporträt

James J. Miracky

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Chapter One: Gender and Genre Matters: Virginia Woolf as
Pioneer and Paradigm Introduction Gendering Literary History and the Novel
Woolf's Take on the Male Novel Tradition: Realism as Erection Constructing
a Women's Literary History Writing a Woman's Sentence . . . and Novel
Considering Woolf's Peers: Gendering the Novel as Well? Chapter Two:
Pursuing (a) Fantasy: E. M. Forster's Doubled-up Fiction Introduction
Aspects of Fantasy Where Homosexuality Fears to Tread: The Italian Novels
Fantasy in Conflict: The Longest Journey Fantasy Rerouted: Howards End From
Phobia to Fulfillment: maurice From Fantasy to the Not Yet of Reality: A
Passage to India Chapter Three: The Sexing of Genius: May Sinclair's
Experimental Novels Introduction Tales of Idealism and Realism: Sinclair's
Early Novels Transitions in Theory and Technique: The Three Sisters
Entering the Stream: Mary Olivier and Harriet Frean The Stream Dries Up:
Arnold Waterlow and Anthony Waring Chapter Four: From Consummation to
Remasculation: D. H. Lawrence's Quest for the Phallic Novel Introduction
Consummation of Male and Female: Early Views on the Novel Man-Loving and
Woman-Hating: Post-War Views of the Novel Quickening the Novel: Lawrence's
Later Theory The Feminization of Fiction and Its Antidote Notes
Bibliography Index