The Situation of the Novel

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University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971 - American fiction - 226 pages
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Examines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture.

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In Sword of Honour the Commando group that Alastair refers to so
enthusiastically is described in much greater detail . ... and though it provides
plenty of grim comedy , we find little of the schoolboy heroics of Alastair ' s eager
description .
Page 118
found that even the Catholic Church was failing him ; in his preface to Sword of
Honour , written in 1964 , Waugh sourly described it as ' an obituary of the
Roman Catholic Church in England as it had existed for many centuries . All the
rites ...
Page 142
It is instructive to compare this passage with Anthony Powell ' s description of
Charles Stringham that I quoted earlier in this ... This story of Cambridge college
politics has become deservedly popular , and has been accurately described by
 ...

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Contents

Preface
7
The Novel No Longer Novel
11
Character and Liberalism
35
Copyright

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Bernard Bergonzi was born in London, England on April 13, 1929. He was a poet, critic, and professor. He taught English literature at Manchester University and Warwick University, where he remained until he retired in 1992. He wrote monographs on H. G. Wells, T. S. Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Arnold, and Graham Greene. His other books included Manchester: The Early H. G. Wells, Heroes' Twilight, The Situation of the Novel, The Myth of Modernism, Exploding English, The Roman Persuasion, Wartime and Aftermath, War Poets and Other Subjects, A Victorian Wanderer, and A Study in Greene. He died on September 20, 2016 at the age of 87.

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TitleThe Situation of the Novel
Critical essays in modern literature, ISSN 0070-153X
AuthorBernard Bergonzi
Editionreprint
PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, 1971
ISBN0822932148, 9780822932147
Length226 pages
  
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