Abstract

Part 1 Introduction - Edwardianism: the literary tradition the context of manliness the search for an audience. Part 2 imperial identity: fiction and empire Conrad - Heart of Darkness Conrad - Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent Kipling - Kim critics of the Empire - Shaw, Wells, Forster. Part 3 condition of England: liberal commentaries - Tressell, London the country house tradition - Tono-Bungay. Part 4 importance of parricide: Bennett - Clayhanger narratives of parricide - Synge defeated fathers - Butler, Gosse, Shaw, Barker, Barrie failed rebellions - Galsworthy, Forster novels of departure - Lawrence, Joyce. Part 5 New women and mothers of empire: Wells - Ann Veronica the context of male writing - Shaw, Bennett, Lawrence feminist writers - Robins, Schreiner woman as child - children's books, Mansfield female consciousness - Richardson, Woolf. Part 6 Poems, audiences and anthologies: Hardy - poems 1912-13 and others Yeats - the struggle for objectivity Kipling and large audiences imagism and impressionism georgian poets, Thomas, Mew. Part 7 new novel: James - The Wings of the Dove the James-Wells dispute Conrad and the multiplied producer after 1914.

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