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050 00 $aPR6003.E73$bZ74 1998
082 00 $a823/.912$221
100 1 $aJohnson, George M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003076813
245 10 $aJ. D. Beresford /$cGeorge M. Johnson.
260 $aNew York :$bTwayne Publishers ;$aLondon :$bPrentice Hall International,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $axviii, 186 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aTwayne's English authors series ;$vTEAS 545
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 172-181) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tJ. D. Beresford: A Candidate for Truth --$gCh. 2.$t"Listening In to the Broadcast Thought of Humanity": Influences and Experiments --$gCh. 3.$tShort Stories: Experimental Outlet --$gCh. 4.$tEarly Psychological Realism --$gCh. 5.$tPsychoanalytic and Mystical Novels: 1918-1929 --$gCh. 6.$tSocial, Family, and Mystical Novels of the 1930s and 1940s --$gCh. 7.$tScientific Romances and Speculative Fiction --$gCh. 8.$tSummation.
520 $aJohn Davys Beresford, a prolific and innovative writer, was heralded in his time for his intelligence and imagination and was considered one of the finest novelists of his generation. George Johnson seeks to redress the unjust neglect of this important figure of the Georgian period. Johnson's unabashed esteem for Beresford the man and discerning admiration of Beresford's work endow this study with a depth and a vitality that bring his subject to life.
520 8 $aBeresford was the author of forty-nine novels, five collections of short stories, nine autobiographical and miscellaneous books, and dozens of shorter pieces all of which crossed many genres and subgenres. Johnson has addressed this voluminous body of work by genre, devoting a chapter to each of the major subjects Beresford explored - psychological realism, psychoanalysis and mysticism, scientific romance, and speculative fiction.
520 8 $aBeresford is of interest not only for his role as an innovator of the psychological novel but for his place in the literary history of the period. He was a friend and intellectual peer of such important writers as D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, John Cowper Powys, John Middleton Murry, and Walter de la Mare.
520 8 $aJohnson's examination of Beresford's life benefits from his access to Beresford's unpublished autobiography; the memoir of Beresford's oldest son, Tristram; and Beresford's correspondence with his literary friends. The introduction of these materials, which have only recently been made available, allows for the most comprehensive study of Beresford's life and work to date.
600 10 $aBeresford, J. D.$q(John Davys),$d1873-1947$xCriticism and interpretation.
830 0 $aTwayne's English authors series ;$vTEAS 545.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42723424
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR6003.E73$iZ74 1998