The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

Concerned with the intermingled thematic and formal preoccupations of romantic thought and literary practice in works by twentieth-century British, Irish, and American artists, this collection examines the complicated legacy of Romanticism in twentieth-century novels, poetry, and film. Essays on authors such as Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, Seamus Heaney, William Faulkner, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo, show the persistence and variety of the Romantic period's influence on the twentieth-century.