The novel of ideas is an important form that is both under-theorised and largely neglected in accounts of the development of the novel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book sets out the history of this critical hostility, which took hold as the aesthetic protocols of literary modern...

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Other Authors:	Potter, Rachel (Editor), Taunton, Matthew (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2024
Subjects:	English fiction / History and criticism Philosophy in literature Thought and thinking in literature
Online Access:	DE-12 DE-473 Volltext
Summary:	The novel of ideas is an important form that is both under-theorised and largely neglected in accounts of the development of the novel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book sets out the history of this critical hostility, which took hold as the aesthetic protocols of literary modernism became established among key literary tastemakers in Britain. It then proposes a revaluation and a critical reclamation of the novel of ideas, showcasing a range of perceptive, sympathetic, and sensitive ways of reading novels in which discursive argumentation is foregrounded and where the clash of ideas is vital to the novelistic effect. Through thematic chapters as well as new accounts of key novelists in the British tradition-including George Eliot, H. G. Wells, Doris Lessing and Kamila Shamsie-this book repositions the novel of ideas as a major form in modern British literature
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Dec 2024)
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (x, 491 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009086745
DOI:	10.1017/9781009086745