In the Company of Strangers : Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust.
In the Company of Strangers shows how a reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary experiments of the modernist novel. While stories of marriage and long-lost relatives were a mainstay of classic Victorian fiction, Barry McCrea suggests that rival countercurrents within these fam...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2011.
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Colección: | Modernist latitudes.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half title; Modernist Latitudes; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Modernism and the Family; Narrative and Family; The Stranger; Part I; 1. Queer Expectations; Oliver Twist: Outlaws and In-Laws; Bleak House; Jarndyce and Jarndyce; Great Expectations; 2. Holmes at Home; Reviewing the Situation: Holmes and Fagin; Stately Homes; Holmes at Home; Part II; Introduction; 3. Family and Form in Ulysses; The Foundling Plots of Ulysses; The Marriage Plots of Ulysses; 4. Proust's Farewell to the Family; "Combray"; Swann and the Bond with the Stranger.
- The Race of AuntsNotes; Index.