The Situation of the Novel

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University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971 - American fiction - 226 pages
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Page 25
One publisher, T. G. Rosenthal, has remarked, 'surely fiction publishing is the
only form of cultural life where intelligent and serious-minded men and women
make available to the public bad works of art, knowing them to be bad and
knowing ...
Page 109
Nevertheless, when such a novel finally appeared, in the form of Brideshead
Revisited, many readers were disconcerted, and Waugh has remarked that it 'lost
me such esteem as I once enjoyed among my contemporaries'. This lush,
nostalgic ...
Page 180
(In a short primer called Language Made Plain Burgess remarked, with
Nominalist primness, 'in every serious discussion much time has to be spent in
redefining common terms like “Love”, “justice”, “freedom”'.) Burgess's
conservatism does ...

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Contents

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

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About the author (1971)

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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