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Generic insistence: Joseph Conrad and the document in selected British and American modernist fiction

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This thesis explores the citation of documents in the modernist novel. From contracts to newspaper articles, telegrams to reports, documents are invoked as interleaved texts in ways that, to date, have not been critically interrogated. I consider a range of novels, including works by Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, Nella Larsen, and Willa Cather, which are selected, in part, as a litmus of Anglo-American modernism, though they can more productively also be understood as coalescing around ...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
English Faculty
Oxford college:
Wolfson College
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HUMS
Department:
English Faculty
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Supervisor
Publication date:
2013
Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
Awarding institution:
University of Oxford
Language:
English
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Deposit date:
2013-12-10

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