Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Parkes, Adam, 1966-

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.

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Details

Description

xviii, 284 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Examines the various, complex relations between impressionist texts and contexts in modern British and Irish works by Bowen, Conrad, Ford, James, Wilde, Woolf, and others, to argue that literary impressionism was an emphatically historical phenomenon.

Subject

• 1800-1999
• 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
• Art and literature
• English literature
• Modernism (Literature)
• Engelsk litteratur > 1800-talet > 1900-talet > historia
• Konst och litteratur > Storbritannien > 1800-talet > 1900-talet
• Impressionism (litteratur)
• Modernism (litteratur)
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9780195383812
• 0195383818

LCCN

2010041382

OCLC

• ocn669160805
• 669160805
• SCSB-14503410

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library