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Overview
The question "What is modernism?" has provoked intense critical discussion. A Route to Modernism explores this question; it focuses on the strange and dangerous journey taken by Hardy, Lawrence, and Woolf towards unknown regions of the mind and the universe. In a discussion of these novelists, both individually and in relation to one another, a radical reconsideration of modernism is developed. This book shows a hypothetical train of Hardy, Lawrence, and Woolf not following an existing track but tunneling beneath surfaces, following routes which are "spasmodic, fragmentary," sometimes taking off like a rocket into the cosmos.
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Booknews
Sumner, retired professor of English at Goldsmith's College, London University, explores versions of modernity in Hardy, Lawrence, and Woolf, individually, in relation to each other, and to other modernists, especially Stein and Joyce. Hardy, Lawrence, and Woolf, says Sumner, propel the novel out into the world and into the psyche, moving fiction away from realistic depiction and into myth and cosmos. At the end of this double penetration, there is no end but still more opening, more enigma, which as Woolf points out, "presents question after question which must be left to sound on and on after the story is over in hopeless interrogation"; the pomos will yawn. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
June 12, 2026
Publisher
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; 2000.
Pages
224
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312224233