Results for 'thomas f staley'

1. Thomas F Staley

Jean Rhys

Dlb 36

When Virginia Woolf wrote that in or about December 1910 human character changed she was reacting specifically to the first impressionist exhibition in England. But her statement also summed up a feeling shared by the so-called modernist writers of that period, who, in the context of World War I, were beginning to think and write in new ways about their government and social structures, their place in the world and their universe. Although modernism is difficult to define and indeed is expressed quite differently by the writers featured in this volume, a common theme among these novelists is the idea that the novel, as an art form, is autonomous-not merely a reflection of the life it depicts but its own enterprise. 29 entries include: Ivy Compton-Burnett, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, Liam OFlaherty, Jean Rhys, Dorothy M. Richardson, Bram Stoker, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf.

Dlb 34

The forty years between 1890 and 1929 were the most fertile and diverse period of the British novel. The first of two volumes covering these years, DLB Volume 34 focuses on the Traditionalists whose works by and large reflect an affinity in form and content with the novelistic tradition established in the 19th century. Although many of the novelists included in this volume reveal a new awareness of the moral self, an irony exists at the unquestioned goals of progress, the injustices of society and a controlled subjectivity. 32 entries include: G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Marie Corelli, Ford Madox Ford, E.M. Forster, Rudyard Kipling, H.H. Munro (Saki), Sylvia Townsend Warner, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde and P.G. Wodehouse.