David Lodge is a much-loved novelist and influential literary critic. Examining his career from his earliest publications in the late 1950s to his more recent works, David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel identifies Lodge's central place within the canon of twentieth-century British literature. J. Russell Perkin argues that liberalism is the defining feature of Lodge's identity as a novelist, critic, and Roman Catholic intellectual, and demonstrates that Graham Greene, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis, Henry James, and H.G. Wells are the key influences on Lodge's fiction. Perkin also considers Lodge's relationship to contemporary British novelists, including Hilary Mantel, Julian Barnes, and Monica Ali. In a study that is both theoretically informed and accessible to the general reader, Perkin shows that Lodge's work is shaped by the dialectic of modernism and the realist tradition. Through an approach that draws on diverse theories of literary influence and history, David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel provides the most thorough treatment of the novelist's career to date.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2014.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 823/.914
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780773543195 9780773591790
- LCCN
- PR6062.O36
- LCCN Item number
- Z65 2014eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xi, 225 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00234050 (OCoLC)872601103 (CaOOCEL)447288
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- 1 The Liberalism of David Lodge 16
- 2 Lodging in Greeneland 48
- 3 Lodge Rejoyces: David Lodge, James Joyce, and Ireland 75
- 4 “Dante and Beatrice in a Suburban Key”: David Lodge and the 1950s 104
- 5 “The Art of Fiction”: David Lodge and Henry James 135
- 6 A Novelist Still at the Crossroads 166
- Notes 192
- Works Cited 208
- Index 228
- A 228
- B 228
- C 229
- D 230
- E 230
- F 230
- G 231
- H 231
- I 231
- J 232
- K 232
- L 233
- M 235
- N 235
- O 235
- P 235
- R 236
- S 236
- T 236
- U 237
- V 237
- W 237
- Y 238
- Z 238
