In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust

by Barry McCrea

Book Overview

In the Company of Strangers shows how a reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary experiments of the modernist novel. While stories of marriage and long-lost relatives were a mainstay of classic Victorian fiction, Barry McCrea suggests that rival countercurrents within these family plots set the stage for the formal innovations of Joyce and Proust. Tracing the challenges to the family plot mounted by figures such as Fagin, Sherlock...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231157622
• ISBN13: 9780231157629
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher