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Author:

Parkes, Adam, 1966-

Title:

A sense of shock : the impact of Impressionism on modern British and Irish writing / Adam Parkes.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xviii, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Art and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Art and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Impressionism in literature.
Visualization in literature.
Imagery (Psychology) in literature.
Impressionism.
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"A sense of justice": Ruskin, Whistler, and James -- "A chain of secret influences": Pater's disciples -- "Fugitive imaginings": art, nationhood, and George Moore's racial instincts -- "Shocks and surprises": Conrad, terrorism and languages of sensation -- "Violent moments of being": Woolf, Pater, and Fry -- "The typical man of this period": Ford's depression -- Epilogue: Bowen's demolished moment.

ISBN:

0195383818 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780195383812 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)669160805

LCCN:

2010041382

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)