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Between Self and Society - Inner Worlds and Outer Limits in the British Psychological Novel (Paperback)
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Between Self and Society - Inner Worlds and Outer Limits in the British Psychological Novel (Paperback)
Series: Literary Modernism
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Between Self and Society explores the psychosocial dramas that
galvanize six major British novels written between the eighteenth
and twentieth centuries. The book challenges an influential
misconception that has for too long hindered appreciation of the
psychological novel. John Rodden argues that there should be no
simplifying antithesis between psychological, "inner" conflicts
(within the mind or "soul") and institutional, "outer" conflicts
(within family, class, community). Instead, it is the overarching,
dramatic-yet often tortuous-relations between self and society that
demand our attention. Rodden presents fresh interpretations of an
eclectic group of prose fiction classics, including Tobias
Smollett's The Adventures of Roderick Random, William Godwin's
Caleb Williams, Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, Ford
Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, Wyndham Lewis's Tarr, and D. H.
Lawrence's Women in Love. Far from being merely admirable
experiments, let alone daring though interesting failures, these
fictions are shown to possess aesthetic unity, stylistic
consistency, and psychic force. Between Self and Society thus
impels our careful reconsideration of novels that represent major
artistic achievements, yet have been either unjustly neglected or
appreciated in limiting ways that do injustice to their
psychological aspects. Rodden's vibrant discussion invites an
upward revaluation of these works and encourages the full
recognition of their value and significance in British literary
history.
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