Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction examines the role of character dialogue in key works of Anglo-American modernism. Through close analysis of texts including The Ambassadors, The Sun Also Rises, "The Dead," The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom , The Waves, Between the Acts, "Melanctha," and Cane, the book documents the ways in which some of the most canonical British and American modernist authors transformed...