Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel - Paperback

The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description-what Virginia Woolf called "that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool." As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during the twentieth century. Dora Zhang argues that descriptive practices were in fact a crucial site of attention and experimentation for a number of early...