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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 56–77.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Andrea P. Zemgulys Copyright © Hofstra University 2000 “Night and Day Is Dead”:
Virginia Woolf in London
“Literary and Historic”
Andrea P. Zemgulys
[We] don’t want the [Hogarth] Press to be a fashionable hobby
patronised and inspired...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 264–271.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Peter Murray Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890–1945 , by Snaith Anna , Cambridge University Press , 2014 . 278 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 Anna Snaith’s Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London , 1890–1945 , is a timely study...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 251–258.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Karen Leick Anti-Nazi Modernism: The Challenges of Resistance in 1930s Fiction , by Spiro Mia , Northwestern University Press , 2013 . 308 pages. Migrant Modernism: Postwar London and the West Indian Novel , by Brown J. Dillon , University of Virginia Press , 2013 . 246...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 49–74.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Irene Yoon This essay demonstrates how Virginia Woolf negotiates problems of temporal, spatial, and intersubjective distance through the modern—and increasingly transparent—landscape of interwar London. Through readings of “A Sketch of the Past” and Mrs. Dalloway , I argue that the perceptual...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 71–91.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Gyllian Phillips Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Imaginary Africa and London’s Wasteland in Sitwell’s “Gold Coast Customs”
Imaginary Africa and
London’s Urban Wasteland in
Edith Sitwell’s “Gold Coast Customs”
Gyllian Phillips
After reading Edith Sitwell’s Gold Coast...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Workers’ Movement founder Wal Hannington’s The Problem of the Distressed Areas (1937), a survey of poverty throughout Britain. Among these are George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) and his The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). We can thus see why, as Andy Croft (1990 : 49) stresses...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 20–33.
Published: 01 March 2011
... to London. In migrating from South Africa,
then, Coetzee is also revisiting what it was that made him a South African
writer in the first place. And in doing so, in returning to the scene of his
birth as a writer, Youth suggests one of the undercurrents in Coetzee’s
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Paul Sheehan
oeuvre...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 273–306.
Published: 01 September 2008
...,” “The Duchess and the Jeweller” is
Woolf’s only published piece fully devoted to a Jewish character.6 The
story’s protagonist is Oliver Bacon, whose work takes him from the East
End in London, the Jewish ghetto, to a shop off Bond Street, where he
establishes himself as Britain’s “richest jeweller...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 285–314.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., in different ways, the writing of nonfiction and fiction. If Aitken’s direct, unornate literary style appeared “distinctively American” ( Athenaeum 1908 ) to the eyes of British reviewers in 1908, it was precisely because it aped the “popular naturalism” ( Wilson 1985 : xi) of writers like Jack London...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 405–430.
Published: 01 December 2020
... travelogue Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941). Copyright © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 Black Lamb Harriet Hume India Orientalism topographies Yugoslavia When I am in a mood to slip out of life into fantasy, London enables me to pass in the drooping of an eyelid into a mere reenactment...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 463–484.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., Woolf deliberately elides the normal categories of sensation. The result is a unified, synesthetic order, countering the atomizing effects of London’s clocks that, shredding and slicing, dividing, and subdividing, “nibbled at the June day” (87). Woolf’s synesthetic aesthetic participates in modernism’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 238–268.
Published: 01 June 2000
... ohnson 4 Co.. L to .. J l. Tulkcch Street. Southport, and published hr the Proprietors.
T hk New F ruw om jin, L to.. at OaWtey House. Bloomsbury Street. London. w.C.
Advertisement for Blast in The Egotist 1 April 1914: 140. Despite the promise
of quarterly publication, only...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 55–84.
Published: 01 March 2024
...), the screeching brakes on the London Underground ( 1966 : 117), and even the disconsolate final movement of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 ( Hawkins 1920 : 117). Charles Darwin famously struggled to portray natural selection as nonteleological ( Beer 2009 : 76), but, for naturalists skeptical about...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 34–53.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., the “Greenwich
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Coetzee’s Novels Youth and Slow Man in the World Republic of Letters
Meridian of literature” (87-91). From these measurements, the center
of the literary world emerges as Europe, specifically Paris and, to a lesser
degree, London.
Although Casanova attempts to describe how...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 493–513.
Published: 01 December 2008
....
Works cited
Amis, Kingsley.“Farewell to a Friend.” Philip Larkirv.The Man and His Work. Ed.
Dale Salwak. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1989. 3—6.
Andersen, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales and Legends. London: Bodley Head, 1942.
Arnold, Matthew. Poems. Selected by Kenneth Allot. Harmondsworth: Penguin...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (1): 75–96.
Published: 01 March 2008
... will be London rather than
Herzog’s New York, and its century not Herzog’s twentieth but the dawn
ing twenty-first, it too promises to deal with universal questions, above all
“what it means to be a man.”
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On a Darkling Planet: Ian McEwan’s Saturday and the Condition of England
Henry Perowne...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 246–275.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., of a Child in London” (91). Martin Jay uses the
phrase to describe Walter Benjamin’s response to the death by suicide of two
friends protesting the Great War (Jay 221).
7. For other versions of this point see Ramazani 4, Cowan 43, and Jay. For
another example of resistance to the “economics” implicit...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (2): 141–166.
Published: 01 June 2004
..., Susan. “The Uses of the Land: Vita Sackville-West’s Pastoral Writings
and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.” Woolf Studies Annual 5 (1999): 25-56.
Bercovici, Konrad. Gypsy Blood. London: Eveleigh, 1922.
The Story of the Gypsies. 2nd ed. New York: Cosmopolitan, 1928.
Bowlby, Rachel. Feminist...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 214–237.
Published: 01 June 2000
...
and raised and from the alienation of living in England, his usual residence
as an adult. Even those periods when he has sought to establish a home
base—such as the 1970s when he lived in Wiltshire or the somewhat earlier
period when he owned a house in London—do not seem to reduce his com
bativeness...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2012
... hotels based
on London’s Savoy as the setting for nearly all of their action. A number
of his other novels and short stories—notably The Old Wives’ Tale (1908),
his masterwork—similarly take place in and around hotels.1 Yet in these
works, Bennett enthusiastically reconceives accepted notions...
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