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Zusatztext a luxuriant and often exotic flowering of fiction both literary and popular...this is a lost generation: it's time they were recovered...this clear, readable companion will be a handy guide for those who feel tempted to try Informationen zum Autor Sandra Kemp is currently Director of Research, Royal College of Art.Charlotte Mitchell is Lecturer in English, University College London.David Trotter is Quain Professor of English Language and Literature, University College London. Klappentext The Edwardian era saw a remarkable outpouring of fiction! much of which we don't normally think of as Edwardian. There were major works such as Conrad's Lord Jim and Nostromo! Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh! and D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. Children's literature saw such marvelousbooks as Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and A Little Princess! and there were many popular classics as well! such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel. Now! in Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion! readers have an illuminating guide to this remarkable but little known period! covering the literary scene in the years from 1900 to the outbreak of the First World War. Here are over a thousand alphabetically arranged entries! including some 800biographies of major and minor authors. Profiles range from such eminent literary figures as Arnold Bennett! John Galsworthy! Katherine Mansfield! and H.G. Wells! to popular writers such as Marie Corelli! Rider Haggard! and Bram Stoker. The Companion also boasts entries on some 250 works offiction--complete with plot outlines--including such important works as E. M. Forster's A Room with a View and Howard's End! Henry James's The Golden Bowl! and James Joyce's Dubliners! major children's books such as The Wind in the Willows and Kipling's Just So Stories! and bestselling volumes suchas Sax Rohmer's The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu and G.K. Chesterton's The Innocence of Father Brown. The Companion also covers novels from other English-speaking countries! such as L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (Canada) and Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career (Australia).Ranging from Henry James's The Ambassadors to Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson! this superb volume captures the books! writers! and preoccupations of a fascinating literary era. It will help readers to reconsider a literary epoch they may have overlooked in the past. A unique A-Z guide to the literature of this fascinating era Zusammenfassung 'This oozing, bulging wealth of the English upper and upper-middle classes.' This was how George Orwell saw the Edwardian period. What images do we see when we think of that era? Ladies munching delicately on cucumber sandwiches? Gentlemen in straw boaters punting gently down rivers? Looking at the authors and authoresses of this time and the things that they wrote about, it seems that there is more to that era than this chocolate-box image of long, lazy summer afternoons would imply. In fact the Edwardian period was a time of much anxiety and insecurity about the changes that were taking place and the ideas that were emerging, and the fiction which arose from them serves as evidence for this.In this unique guide, described as 'a tremendous achievement' by the TLS, literature scholars Sandra Kemp, Charlotte Mitchell, and David Trotter explore the broad sweep of writing that emerged from the early 20th century. Now available in paperback, the Companion offers a wealth of information on the writers, the works, the themes, and the ideas of this fascinating literary era.From Walter Besant's The Fourth Generation, to James Joyce's Dubliners, the Companion doesn't merely centre on works from the Edwardian period but also explores those whose fiction influenced writers at the start of the period and those who took those writers' themes and ideas up to the next level. It also provides details on some...
