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Aristocracies of Fiction The Idea of Aristocracy in Late-19th-Century and Early-20th-century Literary Culture

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Len Platt

Book Code: GM1673

ISBN: 0-313-31673-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31673-9

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184 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 7/30/2001

List Price: $106.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

Availability: Out of stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

Literature » English Literature

Series Title: Contributions to the Study of World Literature

Series Number: 108

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For upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.
—Choice February 2002

Description: From 1890 to 1920, the British aristocracy faded in historical importance. The culture of that period often presented aristocratic characters and typically sought to conserve aristocratic values. The fall of the aristocracy triggered astonishing literary responses. In literary works, aristocrats were transformed into warrior heroes, Scotland Yard detectives, swashbucklers, diseased degenerates, and Gothic monsters. This book explores the centrality of aristocracy to late Victorian and early-20th-century literary culture. Included are discussions of such writers as Marie Corelli, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, H.G. Wells, and Virginia Woolf. The volume looks at major canonical authors as well as some forgotten figures from popular literary culture. In doing so, it establishes links between different types of literature of this period and challenges some important standard views on such topics as Shaw's socialism and Woolf's commitment to the common reader. A significant new addition to historical approaches to literature, this volume raises central questions about cultural processes and the nature of cultural value.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Bibliographical References
Introduction
Histories of Aristocracy
"Do I Strike you as an Aristocrat?"--Aristocracy in Popular Fiction
Edwardian Realists/Early Modernists
Aristocracy and Edwardian Socialists--Shaw's Plays
The "Men of 1914"
Woolf's Imagined Elites
Continuities/Discontinuities: Toward Aristocracies of Fiction, Post 1920
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 00-069151

LCC Class: PR468

Dewey Class: 820


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