Margaret Oliphant, Miss Marjoribanks, from ‘Youth as Depicted in Modern Fiction’

While recent scholarly attention to the medieval aspects of Troilus and Criseyde has overshadowed the older custom of critics to associate it with modern fiction, its kinship with such later literature is authentic. The poem’s plentiful medieval materials—for which Chaucer draws extensively on Dante, Machaut, and Boethius—invite interpretation of it in terms of traditional modes: the epic, the romance, and the philosophical demonstration. Chaucer, however, completely undercuts the usual effects of these modes with irony, at the same time employing the elements and techniques of realism. The irony cooperates with the realism to make a work that finally is like modern fiction in identifying the essentially human through the particularity of its presentation.

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Swords at sunset and bag-puddings: Arthur in modern fiction

Children s Literature in Education ◽

10.1007/bf01146189 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 143-153 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Muriel Whitaker

Keyword(s):

Modern Fiction

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Margaret Oliphant and the Changing World of Victorian Journalism

The Yearbook of English Studies ◽

10.1353/yes.2019.0004 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 67-81

Author(s):

Joanne Shattock

Keyword(s):

Margaret Oliphant ◽

Changing World

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Neuroscience and Modern Fiction

MFS Modern Fiction Studies ◽

10.1353/mfs.2015.0018 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 61 (2) ◽

pp. 209-225 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Stephen J. Burn

Keyword(s):

Modern Fiction

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The Metamorphoses of David Garnett

PMLA ◽

10.2307/460257 ◽

1958 ◽

Vol 73 (4-Part1) ◽

pp. 386-392

Author(s):

W. R. Irwin

Keyword(s):

Modern Fiction

David Garnett achieved a triumphal entry into the citadel of fiction with two short fantasies, Lady into Fox (1922) and A Man in the Zoo (1924). The former was awarded the James Tait Black Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. The latter was welcomed by eagerly waiting reviewers, who expressed their delight that he could follow a tour de force, the most dangerous of beginnings, with a work showing intellectual solidity and range as well as virtuosity. Both books have kept their places of esteem in modern fiction.

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