Titlebook: BennettWells And Conrad; Narrative In Transit Linda R. Anderson Book 1988 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 19

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The Modern Form of Adventureeir friendship could be described by Wells with characteristic but not unjustified bravado as a formidable alliance between the two literary giants of their age. ‘Bennett — Wells — who else is there?… We are the last of an age’.. By 1909 their careers seemed to form a kind of watershed; looking back

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Love and Mr Lewishameviewers, however, this first novel did not seem like an adventurous beginning but a falling away from the ‘startling originality’ he had shown in his previous work; it meant the exchange of ‘monsters’ and ‘machine’ for ‘sloughs of monotonous mediocrity’ as one reviewer expressed it.. Wells was, as

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The History of Mr Pollycts us towards thinking of the novel as contained by rather than containing History. By contrast, . arrives contentedly at a point of stasis. Mr Polly sitting in the setting sun at the village inn of Potwell inhabits a place which is remote from social change, where completeness is possible, which b

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Conclusion the necessary ground for their writing even as they were being deprived of its stable support, became the source of a tormented awareness in Conrad’s work of his difficult relationship to his material and to his audience. The estranging nature of reality was not merely implicit for Conrad; he took

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The Serious Business of Writingport his more deeply meditated and ‘artistic’ work. When Bennett was criticised for wasting his talents writing this kind of sensational fiction, he appraised the possibilities he felt to be open to him in a pragmatic way:

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