Victorian to Modernist: A Formalist Study of English Fiction in the Light of Darwin, Nietzsche, and Freud
FAIN: FB-12140-74
Philip M. Weinstein
Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA 19081-1390)
To interpret the transition from a Victorian to a Modernist sensibility by assessing developments within the English novel, from Dickens to Joyce. To see how the attitudes of Darwin, Nietzsche and Freud became part of the literature and sensibility of the artist.