Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust
by
Barry McCrea
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
In the Company of Strangers shows how a reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary experiments of the modernist novel. While stories of marriage and long-lost relatives were a mainstay of classic Victorian fiction, Barry McCrea suggests that rival countercurrents within these family...