Literature in Britain and Ireland: A History

Novelists and Their Female Heroines: Gender Relations, Materialism and Morality in Moll Flanders, Pamela, and Fanny Hill 225 3.5.3 The Novels of Fielding and Sterne 230 3.5.4 `Mothers of the Novel¿: Women Writers before and beside Jane Austen 236 3.5.5 Oriental Tales and Gothic Romances: Other Worlds in an Age of Reason 242 3.5.6 Fiction and Nation-Building in Scott¿s Historical Novels 247 Guiding Questions and Exercises 253 4 The Literature of the Victorian Age and of the Early Twentieth Century (c.1830 ? c.1920) 255 4.1 Authors, Publishers and Readers: The Changing Face of Literary Communication in Britain and Ireland 255 Guiding Questions and Exercises 268 4.2 `Victorian Values¿: Materialism, Morals and Mentalities in the Literature of the Period 269 4.2.1 Utilitarianism, Darwinism and Religious Belief in the Victorian Age 269 4.2.2 The Impact of the Empire 277 4.2.3 `The Angel in the House¿ vs. the Fallen Woman: Gender Roles and Their Impact on Literature 291 Guiding Questions and Exercises 304 4.3 Drama and Performance: From Music Hall and Melodrama to the Plays of Wilde, Shaw, Yeats and Synge 304 Guiding Questions and Exercises 326 4.4 Poetry from Tennyson to Yeats: Forms and Themes 327 Guiding Questions and Exercises 350 4.5 The Development of Fiction from Dickens to Lawrence 351 4.5.1 Charles Dickens and the Breakthrough of the Novel 351 4.5.2 History and Social Realism in Fiction by Dickens¿s Rivals and Contemporaries 361 4.5.3 Regional and Sensational Elements in the Novel from Wilkie Collins and Thomas Hardy to D. H. Lawrence 378 4.5.4 Devils, Doubles and Detectives: The Development of Short Fiction in Ireland, Scotland and England 390 4.5.5 From Workhouse to Wonderland: The Child in Fiction, and Fiction for Children 400 Guiding Questions and Exercises 419 5 Modernism and Beyond (c.1920 to the Present) 421 5.1 New Developments in Poetry 421 5.1.1 From Yeats¿s Later Poetry to Radical Modernism . 422 5.1.2 Tradition and the Individual Talent: More Moderate Forms of Experiment and Innovation . 431 5.1.3 Englishness in English Verse since the 1960s 448 5.1.4 Scottish, Welsh and Irish Poetry since the 1960s 458 5.1.5 Summing Up a Century in Sonnets 465 Guiding Questions and Exercises 468 5.2 Drama and Theatre 469 5.2.1 New Spaces for Performance and New Media 469 5.2.2 Well-Made Plays and Verse Plays 477 5.2.3 Absurdity, Anger and After 486 5.2.4 Irish Drama and Theatre since the 1920s 501 5.2.5 Drama and Theatre since the 1980s 512 Guiding Questions and Exercises 517 5.3 Fiction 518 5.3.1 Mainstream Writing up to the 1960s, and a Concern with History Well Beyond 520 5.3.2 Forms of Popular Fiction 526 5.3.3 Modernist and Postmodernist Experiments 542 5.3.4 Gender and Region 554 5.3.5 Residues of Empire and Transcultural Fiction in Britain 566 5.3.6 Intertextuality and Intermediality in Contemporary Fiction 586 Guiding Questions and Exercises 593 References and Further Reading 595 Subject Index 620 Name Index 623