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T H E O R I S T S O F T H E

M O D E R N I S T N O V E L

In the early twentieth century the modernist novel exploded literary conventions

and expectations, challenging representations of reality, consciousness and iden-

tity. These novels were not simply creative masterpieces but also crucial articula-

tions of revolutionary developments in critical thought.

In this volume Deborah Parsons traces the developing modernist aesthetic in the

thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf.

Considering cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers and con-

nections between their theories, Parsons pays particular attention to their work on:

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forms of realism

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the representation of character and consciousness

•

gender and the novel

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concepts of time and history.

An understanding of these three thinkers is fundamental to a grasp of modernism,

making this an indispensable guide for students of modernist thought. It is also

essential reading for those who wish to understand debates about the genre of the

novel or the nature of literary expression which were given a new impetus by Joyce,

Richardson and Woolf’s pioneering experiments within the genre of the novel.

Deborah Parsons is a senior lecturer and chair of postgraduate programmes at

the University of Birmingham, UK. Her principal interests are in Modernism

and visual and urban culture.

ROUTLEDGE CRITICAL THINKERS

Series Editor: Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London

Routledge Critical Thinkers is a series of accessible introductions to key fig-

ures in contemporary critical thought.

With a unique focus on historical and intellectual contexts, the vol-

umes in this series examine important theorists’:

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impact on other thinkers.

Concluding with extensively annotated guides to further reading,

Routledge Critical Thinkers are the student’s passport to today’s most

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American Theorists of the Novel: Henry

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Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James

Joyce, Dorothy Richardson & Virginia

Woolf by Deborah Parsons

Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T.S. Eliot,

T.E. Hulme & Ezra Pound by

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THEORISTS OF THE

MODERNIST NOVEL

James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson,

Virginia Woolf

Deborah Parsons

First published 2007 by Routledge

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Parsons, Deborah L., 1973-

Theorists of the modernist novel : James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, and Virginia Woolf /

Deborah Parsons.

p. cm. – (Routledge critical thinkers)

Includes bibliographical references.

1. English fiction–20th century–History and criticism. 2. Modernism (Literature)–Great

Britain. 3. Joyce, James, 1882-1941–Criticism and interpretation. 4. Richardson, Dorothy

Miller, 1873-1957–Criticism and interpretation. 5. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941–Criticism and

interpretation. I. Title.

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