In the company of strangers : family and narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust /
This title shows how a reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary experiments of the modernist novel. While stories of marriage and long-lost relatives were a mainstay of classic Victorian fiction, the book suggests that rival countercurrents within these family plots set the sta...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
2011.
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| Series: | Modernist latitudes.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/mccr15762 |
Table of Contents:
- Queer expectations
- Holmes at home
- Family and form in Ulysses
- Proust's farewell to the family.