"Likeable...engagingly abrasive and edgy."  Times Educational Supplement

• 1. Surviving giants - Hardy and James.  2. Joseph Conrad and the politics of power.  3. Rudyard Kipling - Imperial responsibility and literary escape.  4. E.M. Forster - The proclamations of the liberal agnostic.  5. Fictional politics and some minor forms; Arnold Bennett on the Pentonville omnibus.  6. Virginia Woolf and the search for essences; Modernism and its implications.  7. James Joyce, the professors and the common reader.  8. The reading public and the rise of a profession.  9. D.H.Lawrence - Our Bert versus our Lorenzo; the 1930s - an aftermath.Notes on biographyMajor works and criticism

"Likeable...engagingly abrasive and edgy."  Times Educational Supplement

• 1. Surviving giants - Hardy and James.  2. Joseph Conrad and the politics of power.  3. Rudyard Kipling - Imperial responsibility and literary escape.  4. E.M. Forster - The proclamations of the liberal agnostic.  5. Fictional politics and some minor forms; Arnold Bennett on the Pentonville omnibus.  6. Virginia Woolf and the search for essences; Modernism and its implications.  7. James Joyce, the professors and the common reader.  8. The reading public and the rise of a profession.  9. D.H.Lawrence - Our Bert versus our Lorenzo; the 1930s - an aftermath.Notes on biographyMajor works and criticism

"Likeable...engagingly abrasive and edgy."  Times Educational Supplement

• 1. Surviving giants - Hardy and James.  2. Joseph Conrad and the politics of power.  3. Rudyard Kipling - Imperial responsibility and literary escape.  4. E.M. Forster - The proclamations of the liberal agnostic.  5. Fictional politics and some minor forms; Arnold Bennett on the Pentonville omnibus.  6. Virginia Woolf and the search for essences; Modernism and its implications.  7. James Joyce, the professors and the common reader.  8. The reading public and the rise of a profession.  9. D.H.Lawrence - Our Bert versus our Lorenzo; the 1930s - an aftermath.Notes on biographyMajor works and criticism