Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Hardy insisted that his poetry steadily grew in skill and maturity.

Lawrence's career as a professional writer is a remarkable story.

This volume illustrates the strength and variety of twentieth century literature, and provides a stimulating collection to which readers will return time and again.

The dialectic between national literary production and the rise of a group of writers with cosmopolitan sympathies is the aim of this book, concentrating on Rushdie's novels and journalism.

An examination of the changing relationship between the writer and his protagonists, exploring how Isherwood's fiction achieves artistic integration and literary significance only when it reflects his personal concerns through theme and technique as he experiments with new narrative strategies.

One of the subjects of deepest and most enduring interest to Henry James was the creative experience of writers and critics.

A study of Wharton's work which discusses her novels and travel books according to their specific geography or landscape rather than the date of composition.

The literary memory of the Great War is dominated by the writings of Sassoon and Owen, Graves and Blunden.

This critical introduction to Warner's writings aims to rehabilitate them from neglect by discussing the development of his ideas and their problematic relationship with the fictional forms through which he articulated them - a relationship which deepens his ostensibly straightforward narratives, and which raises questions of continuing literary interest.

A critical study which discusses passion and community as the central structures of feeling in tragic realism, tracing their origins in Stendhal, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and explaining their contemporary eclipse in Western society.

Jane Wheare concerns herself with Virginia Woolf's artistry in "e;The Voyage Out"e;, "e;Night and Day"e; and "e;The Years"e;, where Woolf exploited and developed the "e;realist"e; model, finding in it the most appropriate vehicle through which to put across obliquely her own ideas about women and society.

It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition.

An attempt to illuminate Virginia Woolf's aesthetic by providing an original thoery regarding her use of the random frames provided by life.

The author explores the impact on poetic practice in the 1970s and 1980s of recent theoretical developments, offering a criticism of the work of Seamus Heaney and of poets including Michael Hofmann, reassessing life on Mars and providing retrospective surveys of Fleur Adcock and others.

Katherine Mansfield was a formidable critic: astute, witty and something more - she had, as Middleton Murry put it, an extraordinary style and critical verve, mastery and 'sureness of touch'.

'A subtle and powerful picture of the Bloomsbury Group.

In revising this book for a second edition, Harry Blamires has updated his final chapters to give a thorough coverage to the work of dramatists, novelists and poets who have achieved prominence in the 1980s, either as new writers or rediscovered authors who have recently been brought back into print or revived by radio and television.

The five novels E.

Nietzsche's work has greatly influenced twentieth-century ideas and culture, but four European writers may be regarded as particularly 'Nietzschean'.