English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 articles

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Forster's BBC talks.(The BBC Talks of E. M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition)(Book review)
September 22, 2009... The BBC Talks of E. M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition. Mary Lago, Linda K. Hughes, Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, eds. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xiv + 477 pp. $59.95 IT IS THE END of 1932 and Forster is at the BBC microphone wondering about this new medium,...

Eastern figures.(Eastern Figures: Orient and Empire in British Writing)(Book review)
September 22, 2009... Douglas Kerr. Eastern Figures: Orient and Empire in British Writing. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. vi + 258 pp. Paper $49.95 DOUGLAS KERR'S RICH AND IMPRESSIVE STUDY of evocations of the East in British imperial writing stretches from Thomas Babington Macaulay on Indian...

Envisioning reform in Gissing's The Nether World.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2009... Public opinion no longer constrains a novelist to be false to himself.... it is purely a matter for his private decision whether he will write as the old law dictates or show life its image as he beholds it. --George Gissing, "The Place of Realism in Fiction" (1) IN HIS 1895 ESSAY "The...

Mass production and the spread of information in Dracula: "proofs of so wild a story".(Critical essay)
September 22, 2009... BRAM STOKER'S Dracula is a collection of firsthand narratives about a small group's interaction with, and eventual defeat of, a foreign threat that invades England. Presented within a frame, the purpose of the collected narratives within the fiction is to provide information to a group of...

Battlefield cemeteries, pilgrimage, and literature after the First World War: the burial of the dead.(Report)
September 22, 2009... Here was the world's worst wound. And here with pride "Their name liveth for evermore" the Gateway claims. Was ever an immolation so belied As these intolerably nameless names? Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime. --Siegfried...