{"product_id":"david-lodge-and-the-tradition-j-russell-perkin-9780773543201","title":"David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Lodge is a much-loved novelist and influential literary critic. Examining his career from his earliest publications in the late 1950s to his more recent works\u003ci\u003e, David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel\u003c\/i\u003e identifies Lodge's central place within the canon of twentieth-century British literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJ. Russell Perkin argues that liberalism is the defining feature of Lodge's identity as a novelist, critic, and Roman Catholic intellectual, and demonstrates that Graham Greene, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis, Henry James, and H.G. Wells are the key influences on Lodge's fiction. Perkin also considers Lodge's relationship to contemporary British novelists, including Hilary Mantel, Julian Barnes, and Monica Ali. In a study that is both theoretically informed and accessible to the general reader, Perkin shows that Lodge's work is shaped by the dialectic of modernism and the realist tradition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough an approach that draws on diverse theories of literary influence and history, \u003ci\u003e David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel \u003c\/i\u003eprovides the most thorough treatment of the novelist's career to date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Russell Perkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0773543201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780773543201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McGill-Queen's University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"J. Russell Perkin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096713863423,"sku":"9780773543201","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/david-lodge-and-the-tradition-j-russell-perkin-9780773543201","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}