Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustration
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Satire and its discontents
- Chapter 2 Modernism's story of feeling
- Chapter 3 The rule of outrage: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies
- Chapter 4 Laughter and fear in A Handful of Dust
- Chapter 5 Cold Comfort Farm and mental life
- Chapter 6 Nathanael West and the mystery of feeling
- Chapter 7 Nightwood and the ends of satire
- Chapter 8 Beckett's authoritarian personalities
- Notes
- Index
- References
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustration
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Satire and its discontents
- Chapter 2 Modernism's story of feeling
- Chapter 3 The rule of outrage: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies
- Chapter 4 Laughter and fear in A Handful of Dust
- Chapter 5 Cold Comfort Farm and mental life
- Chapter 6 Nathanael West and the mystery of feeling
- Chapter 7 Nightwood and the ends of satire
- Chapter 8 Beckett's authoritarian personalities
- Notes
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Modernism, Satire and the Novel , pp. 184 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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