The Reader in Modernist Fiction

by Brian Richardson

Many major modernists - including Henry James, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Bowen, Vladimir Nabokov and Ralph Ellison - wrote central scenes describing characters reading. In most cases, the readers depicted suffer unfortunate fates. Intriguingly, the act of reading is also often intertwined with sexual activities. The Reader in Modernist Fiction analyses the construction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 139952836X
• ISBN13: 9781399528368
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages