Abstract
This chapter argues that Waugh's most distnguished and powerful novel draws from and engages with not only its earlier modernist precursors such as Eliot's Waste Land and Conrad's Heart of Darkness but also, in ways that haven't hitherto been sufficiently acknowledged, 19th century realist masterpieces such as Flaubert's Madame Bovary. By close analysis of the novel, the chapter demonstraes this double heritage and explores the tensions between sympahy in the realist tradition and irony in the modernist tradition.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Reassessing the Twentieth-Century Canon: From Joseph Conrad to Zadie Smith |
Editors | N. Allen, D. Simmons |
Place of Publication | Basingstoke, UK |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 75-90 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781137366009 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2014 |