The Dialogic Novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert A. Morace
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Literature, Writing, Novelists, England or English people, Liberalism, Folklore, Comedy
Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge are two of the best English novelists at work in the later decades of the twentieth century and, as Robert Morace demonstrates in this critical study, the two have been unfairly neglected by critics and literary historians.
Both Bradbury and Lodge are direct descendants of a long and fruitful seno-comic tradition in the English novel, going back through Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis to Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne in the eighteenth century. The two novelists also have a number of other connections. Lodge and Bradbury have had a symbiotic...
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