{"product_id":"larry-mcmurtry-and-the-victorian-roger-walton-jones-9780890966211","title":"Larry McMurtry and the Victorian Novel: Volume 5","description":"Millions have read Larry McMurtry's novel, though few conciously understand the subtle underlying themes that charachterize his fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRoger Walton Jones examines McMurtry's lifelong interest in Victorian authors and their influence on his novels. Emphasizing the common sense of dislacement McMurtry shared with the Victorians, Jones identifies three Victoria themes by which McMurtry reconciles the reader to experience and gives his art a religious function: the individual's importance to society; the conflict between civilization and nature in an industrial age; and the attempt to find a basis for spirituality in a world without God or faith in organized religion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJones explores these themes as they are played out in all of McMurtry's fiction, paying particular attention to \u003ci\u003eThe Last Pciture Show\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLonesome Dove\u003c\/i\u003e. Unpublished letters and an early, unpublished short story shed light on the interpretation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this thought-provoking anaylsis, Jones helps correct the injustice done McMurtry when his work has been ignored or treated with condescension by literary critics charmed by the convolutions of postermodernism. Readers of McMurtry's work, as well as students of Victorian literature, will find Jones's treatment stimulating, insightful, and perhaps unexpectedly positive and will benefit from seeing a new moral and spiritual dimension in the work of one of the most intersting contemporary American authors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eROGER WALTON JONES received his MA from Southern Illinois University and his PhD from Texas A\u0026amp;M University. He specializes in modern American and British Victorian literature and has written numerous short stories. He is the division chair of the Humanities \u0026amp; Social\/Behaviorial Science department at Ranger College and has served as director of the Academic Honors Program.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roger Walton Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0890966214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780890966211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas A\u0026amp;M University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.84h x 5.79w x 0.74d","brand":"Roger Walton Jones","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48087040819455,"sku":"9780890966211","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2cf1067d-f9f7-4583-ba72-4c84a9c931cd.jpg?v=1769097964","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/larry-mcmurtry-and-the-victorian-roger-walton-jones-9780890966211","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}