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1 online resource (pages) |
| Series |
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 34 |
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Dictionary of literary biography complete online |
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 34
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| Contents |
Maurice Baring (1874-1945) -- Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) -- Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) -- John Buchan (1875-1940) -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) -- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) -- Marie Corelli (1855-1924) -- E. M. Delafield (Edmee Elizabeth Monica de la Pasture Dashwood) (1890-1943) -- Norman Douglas (1868-1952) -- Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) -- E. M. Forster (1879-1970) -- John Galsworthy (1867-1933) -- David Garnett (1892-1981) -- Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) -- Maurice Hewlett (1861-1923) -- James Hilton (1900-1954) -- Constance Holme (1880-1955) -- Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) -- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) -- Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972) -- Charles Morgan (1894-1958) -- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) -- J. B. Priestley (1894-1984) -- Frederick William Rolfe (Baron Corvo) (1860-1913) -- V. Sackville-West (1892-1962) -- Frank Swinnerton (1884-1982) -- Hugh Walpole (1884-1941) -- Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) -- Mary Webb (1881-1927) -- H. G. Wells (1866-1946) -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) |
| Summary |
Essays on British novelists whose work reflected the great transitions of society and the nation. Novels of this period were influenced by two strong but not mutually exclusive impulses: to write out of the tradition that immediately preceded at the same time confronting the changing shape of the world; the attempt to break sharply form the traditions and values inherited and reflect in form, technique, and subject matter an altered vision of the world and the self |
| Notes |
Original: 347 p |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century.
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English fiction -- 20th century.
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Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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English fiction.
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Novelists, English.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Staley, Thomas F., editor.
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| ISBN |
0810317125 |
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9780810317123 |
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