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... inclination toward retrospection. Comparable forms of nostalgia for the Edwardian period persist in 1930s fiction and are explored in this essay, along with an inheritance of modernist narrative techniques, in novels including The Memorial, Eyeless in Gaza, A Scots Quair , and Coming Up for Air . The essay...

...- thing, and he makes it worth something" (169). This ironic commentary by a mi- nor character precisely identifies the major preoccupation of Wells's novel and marks the site of Edwardian anxiety informing the Condition of England novel: the apparent abandonment by "modern commerce" of established...

... accounts for the emergence of the modernist novel in the early twentieth century, and what links it to preceding modes of the novel in the Victorian period and the Edwardian period? Esty also addresses a second, seemingly distinct historical problem that has come to the fore in recent ‘‘new modernist...

... in 1894 and Lloyd George's “People's Budget” in 1909–10. Redistribution, Kohlmann argues, rearticulates “utopianism in the reformist register of slow politics” (157). To a reader in 2023, in a country that exists because of grievances about taxes, it is wonderful to read about an “Edwardian view of tax...

..." to delineate a range of values and activities associated with Forster's Mr. Wicox. By commerce, I refer to the evolving economic order in the Edwardian age-spurred by the explosion of trade both in England and from imperial interests-as opposed to money made the old-fashioned way...

... but an attempt to free ordinary life from the clichés of a literary and novelistic language that has itself become normative. Virginia Woolf's “The Modern Novels” of 1919 contrasts, for instance, modernist poetics with the artificiality of Edwardian literary conventions. Yet the polemics is carried out...

...: Revisioning Edwardian and Modernist Literature . Ed. Carola M. Kaplan and Anne B. Simpson New York: St. Martin’s, 1996 . 193 –214. Hall , Catherine . Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830–1867 . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2002 . Heine , Elizabeth...

... British literary and cultural system featured a similar map of agonisms, with the ascent of modernist and popular romance narratives pressuring from two flanks the social realism associated with mid-Victorian industrial society. The late Victorian and Edwardian realism wars registered an uncertain fate...

... , 1985 . Coombes Annie E. Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture, and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England . New Haven : Yale UP , 1994 . The “District Railway” Guide to the Greater Britain Exhibition . London : Boot and Son , 1899 . Forster E. M...

... for form in their own analyses, his criticism remains primarily mimetic. It focuses almost exclusively on Victorian and Edwardian realist prose fiction, and heavily favors the discussion of represented content over analysis of form. While mimetic criticism has a venerable pedigree, it has had its...

... instinctive cultural conservatism meant that the printed word was initially the preferred medium, with secret subsidies being paid to respectable commercial and uni- versity presses, and that the authors being co-opted were the aging lions of late Victorian and Edwardian literature rather than any...

..., Laura Marcus, Garry Leonard, and Sara Danius that have focused on the ways technology and modern perception bear on modernist literature, Sicker reads closely Joyce's multidimensional engagement with vision in Ulysses in conversation with Victorian and Edwardian visual technology, medieval theology...

.... Hynes , Samuel . Edwardian Occasions: Essays on English Writing in the Early Twentieth Century . New York: Oxford UP, 1972 . Jackson , Tony E. The Subject of Modernism: Narrative Alterations in the Fiction of Eliot, Conrad, Woolf, and Joyce . Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995...

.... Drawing on the etymology of torture for its title, Twisted Words studies changing definitions of the concept of torture and its growing currency among Victorian and Edwardian writers and readers in Britain and its settler colonies. It charts how torture, “as act and as word, evolved in relation...

... to understand how the form of the novel itself had to change for women's political careers to figure in it. I argue in this essay that some Victorian and Edwardian women writers experimented with genre hybridizations meant to break the stranglehold domestic ideology held on narratives of female political...

... Dalloway shows its greatest ambivalence, for while the novel hopes to move its world (and the Victorian/Edwardian novel) past the bland cataloguing of a superficial reality, it cannot entirely forego the tools and methods of bureaucracy. One of its most emblematic stylistic tics—the list—bears the deep...

...: The Victorian and Edwardian Navy . Boston: Routledge, 1981 . Park , You-me , and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan. The Postcolonial Jane Austen . New York: Routledge, 2000 . Perkin , Harold . The Rise of Professional Society: England Since 1880 . New York: Routledge, 1989 . Pinch , Adela...

... . Shpayer-Makov Haia . The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2011 . Simmon Allan , and Peters John G. , and Stape J. H. , eds. Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews . Vol. 2 . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2012...

... York : Cambridge UP , 1990 . Wolffe John . Great Deaths: Grieving, Religion, and Nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2000 . Young G. M. Victorian England: Portrait of an Age . London : Oxford UP , 1936 . Relics and Death...

...: Penguin, 1983 . Orwell , George . The Road to Wigan Pier . 1937. The Complete Works of George Orwell. Ed. Peter Davison. Vol. 5 . London: Secker and Warburg, 1986 –87. Ottewill , David . The Edwardian Garden . New Haven: Yale UP, 1989 . Parry , Benita . Delusions...