Arnold Bennett

by Kenneth Young

Arnold Bennett began as a journalist and never altogether lost the journalist's fascination for the complicated material processes which keep modern life in motion. It was this interest in externals that inspired Virginia Wolf's famous critical attack on Bennett's art, which she found lacking in feeling for 'mood, or soul, or inwardness', though she still acknowledged him 'by far the best workman' among the Edwardian novelists. Another woman novelist,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582012325
• ISBN13: 9780582012325
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 54 Pages