A Man from the North

Bennett, Arnold

A Late-Victorian Tale of Provincial Ambition, Literary London, and the Cost of Self-Invention

10,30 €

ISBN: 9788027382446

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 164 g

Produktinformationen "A Man from the North"

A Man from the North, Arnold Bennett's debut novel, traces the fortunes of Richard Larch, a young provincial who leaves the industrial Midlands for London in pursuit of literary and social self-realisation. Combining Bildungsroman with late-Victorian urban realism, the book studies ambition, class insecurity, romance, and the seductions of metropolitan culture. Its restrained irony, precise social observation, and interest in the psychology of aspiration anticipate Bennett's mature fiction of the Five Towns. Bennett himself was ideally placed to write such a novel. Born in Hanley, Staffordshire, and trained first in the routines of provincial legal work, he moved to London and made his way through journalism, editing, and fiction. His own passage from the Potteries to the capital informs Richard's divided consciousness: proud of northern energy yet anxious before London's literary hierarchies, manners, and opportunities. This novel is recommended to readers interested in the making of a modern novelist, in provincial responses to imperial London, and in the transitional fiction between Victorian realism and Edwardian social analysis. It is especially valuable as an early map of Bennett's lifelong concerns: work, ambition, place, and the cost of self-invention.

Eigenschaften "A Man from the North"

Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, nicht nach Genre
Verlag:	e-artnow

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