Add this copy of Tradition & Dream to cart. $5.58, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Random House (UK).
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Good. Tanning/scratches/creases to cover & scuffs to edges. Slight wear inside back cover. Scratches/some marks to textblock edges. Tanning to pages, darker at edges. Creases to page corners. Text good. 368 p. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
Add this copy of Tradition and Dream (Hogarth Critics) to cart. $11.06, fair condition, Sold by Stephen White Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bradford, WEST YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1986 by Chatto & Windus.
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Add this copy of Tradition and Dream: the English and American Novel to cart. $20.28, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1968 by Phoenix.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN: 0460076019.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of Tradition and Dream: the English and American Novel to cart. $24.31, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1968 by Phoenix House.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN: 0460076019.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN: 0460076019.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN: 0460076019.
An initial caveat: This book was also published in the United States as The Modern Novel in Britain and the United States.
It was fascinating for me to reread this book after more than 45 years. His classic The English Novel, which traces the English Novel from its beginnings at the beginning of the eighteenth century carried a lot of authority when I was an undergraduate in the early 60s. While that books is still a valuable reference source, the present book is an historical curiosity, showing how much literary fashions have changed since 1964.
For example, in a 350 page book, Allen mentions scarcely 30 women writers, where a cursory count of male writers gives me more than 250! Sex is a subject which one can feel him lowering his voice when he writes about writers whose work celebrates it in all its manifestation. He is more than a little conflicted. Consequently, although he justly celebrates D. H. Lawrence, he soft-pedals Lawrence's sexuality in Women in Love, even as he criticizes Dorothy Richardson for making the heroine of Pilgrimage too spiritual.
To his credit, when he cannot escape it, he does acknowledge the sexuality of writers like Denton Welch, Ronald Firbank, and Truman Capote. But Djuna Barnes gets a single brief mention as "perverse". Patricia Highsmith's groundbreaking Price of Salt and Strangers on a Train and their author never existed for Mr. Allen, nor did Mary Renault's pioneering first six contemporary novels, which were highly regarded in their time, even though they were subsequently overshadowed by the succes of her historical novels.
The historical novel is apparently not a form worthy of consideration, though in his earlier book, he did include Walter Scott. John Cowper Powys's all-encompassing examination of the power of eros, A Glastonbury Romance, is much sanitized in Allen's discussion. And I could go on and on...
iNevertheless this book is fascinating for what it shows the fickleness of academic literary fashion. It should certainly be a cautionary lesson to future literary historians.
On the plus side, it has a good reading list, though not in bibliographical form, and Allen's style is breezy, his opinions never less than interesting.
