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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCrea, Barry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2011.
Colección:Modernist latitudes.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.