#x98;The#x9C; making of the twentieth century novel Lawrence, Joyce, Faulkner and beyond

Front Matter....Pages i-ix Passion and Compassion; Absence and Desire....Pages 1-19 Lawrence: Passion and its Dissolution....Pages 20-43 Joyce: The Lineaments of Desire....Pages 44-71 Bitter-Sweet: Hemingway and Barnes....Pages 72-90 Faulkner I: The Family Void....Pages 91-110 Faulkner II: Colours of Absence; Ubiquity of Desire....Pages 111-133 Faulkner III: Abstraction....Pages 134-147 Lowry: The Day of the Dead....Pages 148-168 Completion: Wright and Ellison....Pages 169-187 False Composure: Durrell and Fowles, Bellow and Styron....Pages 188-201 Back Matter....Pages 202-219 In this study of the 20th century English language novel, the author shows how modernist experiments in form have intensified the vision of social experience in the work of Lawrence, Joyce, Faulkner, Barnes, Hemingway, Lowry and Ellison.