| Description |
1 online resource (x, 254 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Interiority and Its Discontents; One: Acoustics in the Thackeray Theater; Two: George Eliot's Lot; Three: Henry James's Awkward Stage; Four: Joyce Unperformed; Epilogue: In the Kingdom of Whomever: Baldwin's Method; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual. Empty Houses challenges this consensus by reexamining the genre's development from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and exploring what has until now seemed an anomaly--the frustrated theatrical ambitions of major novelists. Offering new interpretations of the careers of William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Henry James, James Joyce, and James Baldwin--writers known for mapping ever-narrower interior geographies--this book argues that the genre's inward-looking tendency has been misunderstood |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English fiction -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- History and criticism
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Fiction -- Technique -- History
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Drama -- Technique -- History
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Drama.
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American fiction
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Drama -- Technique
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English fiction
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Fiction -- Technique
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Romans.
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Toneelstukken.
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Engels.
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Amerikaans.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400840090 |
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1400840090 |
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1283290685 |
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9781283290685 |
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