Research Catalog

Title

The world broke in two : Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the year that changed literature / Bill Goldstein.

Author

Goldstein, Bill

Publication

• New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Description

x, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• "A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster and D.H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism. The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, and D.H. Lawrence, make over the course of one pivotal year. As 1922 begins, all four are literally at a loss for words, confronting an uncertain creative future despite success in the past. The literary ground is shifting, as Ulysses is published in February and Proust's In Search of Lost Time begins to be published in England in the autumn. Yet, dismal as their prospects seemed in January, by the end of the year Woolf has started Mrs. Dalloway, Forster has, for the first time in nearly a decade, returned to work on the novel that will become A Passage to India, Lawrence has written Kangaroo, his unjustly neglected and most autobiographical novel, and Eliot has finished--and published to acclaim--"The Waste Land." As Willa Cather put it, "The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts," and what these writers were struggling with that year was in fact the invention of modernism. Based on original research, The World Broke in Two captures both the literary breakthroughs and the intense personal dramas of these beloved writers as they strive for greatness."--
• "A literary history of the year 1922 in the lives of Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and T.S. Eliot"--

Subjects

• English fiction
• Literature and society
• Eliot, T. S (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
• Forster, E. M (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970
• English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Eliot, T. S (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 > Criticism and interpretation
• Forster, E. M (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970 > Criticism and interpretation
• Nineteen twenty-two, A.D
• LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading
• Literature and society > History > 20th century
• Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain
• LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Great Britain
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
• History
• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation
• Lawrence, D. H (David Herbert), 1885-1930 > Criticism and interpretation
• 1900-1999
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-334) and index.

Call Number

JFE 17-8355

ISBN

• 9780805094022
• 0805094024

LCCN

2017001569

OCLC

970042762

Author

Goldstein, Bill, author.

Title

The world broke in two : Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the year that changed literature / Bill Goldstein.

Publisher

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-334) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 17-8355