LEADER 03366nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910781243003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-09404-5 010 $a9786613094049 010 $a0-231-52733-0 024 7 $a10.7312/mccr15762 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036146 035 $a(EBL)949011 035 $a(OCoLC)829462132 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000537859 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12192360 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537859 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10557296 035 $a(PQKB)11614147 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000294797 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC949011 035 $a(DE-B1597)459115 035 $a(OCoLC)979739704 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231527330 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL949011 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10469166 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL309404 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036146 100 $a20110103d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn the company of strangers$b[electronic resource] $efamily and narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust /$fBarry McCrea 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (441 p.) 225 1 $aModernist latitudes 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-15763-0 311 $a0-231-15762-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aQueer expectations -- Holmes at home -- Family and form in Ulysses -- Proust's farewell to the family. 330 $aIn the Company of Strangers shows how a reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary experiments of the modernist novel. While stories of marriage and long-lost relatives were a mainstay of classic Victorian fiction, Barry McCrea suggests that rival countercurrents within these family plots set the stage for the formal innovations of Joyce and Proust. Tracing the challenges to the family plot mounted by figures such as Fagin, Sherlock Holmes, Leopold Bloom, and Charles Swann, McCrea tells the story of how bonds generated by chance encounters between strangers come to take over the role of organizing narrative time and give shape to fictional worlds-a task and power that was once the preserve of the genealogical family. By investigating how the question of family is a hidden key to modernist structure and style, In the Company of Strangers explores the formal narrative potential of queerness and in doing so rewrites the history of the modern novel. 410 0$aModernist latitudes. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFamilies in literature 606 $aQueer theory 606 $aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFamilies in literature. 615 0$aQueer theory. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 676 $a823/.809355 686 $a17.93$2bcl 700 $aMcCrea$b Barry$f1974-$01488612 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781243003321 996 $aIn the company of strangers$93731556 997 $aUNINA