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Offers accounts of the fiction of Angus Wilson, Brian Moore, John Fowles, and V S Naipaul. The author has charted the development of each writer, identified dominant themes, controlling techniques, and informing sensibility, and explained what each has tried to accomplish and compare theory to practice.

The central importance of naturalistic vision - of a sense of man's life as part of nature - is emphasized in this study of the poetry of Tennyson and Swinburne. In tracing this vision, Professor McSweeney makes a series of qualitative distinctions leading to a revaluation of the achievements of both poets.

First published in 1984. The intellectual, religious and aesthetic background to Middlemarch are fully examined, with particular attention paid to Eliot¿s key doctrines of fellow-feeling and the humanistic economy of salvation. Professor McSweeney also provides fresh and thought-provoking discussions of the role of the omniscient narrator, and of character and characterisation. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

The author's aim in this study is to examine the poetic and amorous aspects of Victorian love poetry.

In this stimulating and original analysis of some of the most important nineteenth-century poems in English, Kerry McSweeney offers an alternative to non-referential and New Historicist critical methods.

An aesthetic perspective on the short fiction of Chekhov, Joyce, Hemingway, OConnor, and Carver

Two conspicuous features of the radical transformation of literary studies over the past three decades have been the dominance of theory-based interpretative discourse and cultural studies contextualizations. Both have greatly energized literary studies - but they have done so at a cost. Kerry McSweeney critiques such readings of Romantic, Victorian, and 19th-century American poems. In What's the Import? he proposes and exemplifies an aestheti...