Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel

by Dora Zhang

Book Overview

The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description--what Virginia Woolf called "that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool." As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during the twentieth century. Dora Zhang argues that descriptive practices were in fact a crucial site of attention and experimentation for a number of early modernist writers, centrally Woolf, Henry James, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022672249X
• ISBN13: 9780226722498
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"