Modernism and the Fate of Individuality: Character and Novelistic Form from Conrad to Woolf

by Michael Levenson

Book Overview

Michael Levenson, author of the acclaimed A Genealogy of Modernism, devotes this second book to the complex question of the self, the individual subject, as it undergoes various transitions throughout the period we designate 'modernist'. The book is an elaborate and compelling engagement with the problem of individuality in our age, structured around a sophisticated reading of eight major novels by Conrad, James, Forster, Madox Ford, Lewis, Lawrence,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521609445
• ISBN13: 9780521609449
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"