This study of tragic fiction in European modernism brings together novelists who espoused, in their view, a Greek vision of tragedy and a Darwinian vision of na

This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentiet

This book is the first major study that explores the intrinsic connection between music and myth, as Nietzsche conceived of it in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), i

Originally published under title: The passive voice: an approach to modern fiction. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1966.

In the flirtation plots of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and W. M. Thackeray, heroines learn sociability through competition with naughty coquette-d