Research Catalog

Title

A sense of shock [electronic resource] : the impact of Impressionism on modern British and Irish writing / Adam Parkes.

Author

Parkes, Adam, 1966-

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Details

Description

1 online resource (xviii, 284 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Sense of shock (Online)

Alternative Title

Sense of shock (Online)

Subject

• English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Art and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Art and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Impressionism in literature
• Visualization in literature
• Imagery (Psychology) in literature
• Impressionism
• Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-264) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

"A sense of justice": Ruskin, Whistler, and James -- "A chain of secret influences": Pater's disciples -- "Fugitive imaginings": art, nationhood, and George Moore's racial instincts -- "Shocks and surprises": Conrad, terrorism and languages of sensation -- "Violent moments of being": Woolf, Pater, and Fry -- "The typical man of this period": Ford's depression -- Epilogue: Bowen's demolished moment.

LCCN

2010041382

OCLC

ssj0000525590

Author

Parkes, Adam, 1966-

Title

A sense of shock [electronic resource] : the impact of Impressionism on modern British and Irish writing / Adam Parkes.

Imprint

New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-264) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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