Bibliography, News, and Notes

63 BIBLIOGRAPHY, NEWS, AND NOTES Compiled and Edited: H. E. Gerber, Barbara Blakey, Bernard Quint This listing includes unabstracted references to all pertinent articles we have published in Volume XIV, Nos 1-4 (197I), as well as abstracts of items published elsewhere on the authors we have been listing regularly. We list only authors on whom we have published a selected bibliography, a bibliography in depth, or on whom a project is in progress either for publication in the Annotated Secondary Bibliography Series being published by Northern Illinois University Press or in ELT. In general, we shall not include abstracts of reviews or secondary works unless they contain significant comments on primary works. In general, we shall not abstract items already abstracted in Dissertation Abstracts, although we shall list such items. Persons who have assumed responsibility for abstracts on particular authors are appropriately credited in a by-line. Contributors of scattered items are credited in brackets at the end of the relevant entry. Bibliographies wanted: Since relatively little current research appears on the following authors, we list their names here and await offers from our readers to prepare selected, in most cases, annotated bibliographies of writings about them, or to prepare, in a few cases, bibliographies in depth. From time to time, as our backlog diminishes , we shall add other names. We are, of course, always ready to discuss projects on authors not now listed but who fall within the scope of ELT. Max Beerbohm Maurice Hewlett W. B. Maxwell John Davis Beresford Lionel Johnson Leonard Merrick Walter Besant Richard Le Gallienne* C. E. Montague Gilbert Cannan Rose Macaulay Arthur Morrison William deMorgan Milliam McFee Oliver Onions W. L. George Compton Mackenzie Edwin Pugh H. Rider Haggard Arthur Symons* * Secondary bibliographies planned for publication in ELT are under consideration. ARNOLD BENNETT By Anita Miller We published James G. Hepburn's selected annotated bibliography of writings about Bennett in EFT, I: 1 (1957), 7-12, and additional items in various numbers since then. Anita Miller will continue to abstract items appearing currently. Bellamy, William. The Novels of Wells, Bennett and Galsworthy, I89O-I9IO (NY: Barnes & Noble, 197lTl~PP. 1-3, 7-8, 11-12, 13^T6719, 20-23, 26, 29, 36, 41-42, 47-48, 65, 67, 71-87, 105-7, 109-12, 118, 144-64, 167, 199, 201, 205, 206, 211-16, 219, 231-32. The Edwardian writers were beginning to be able to define themselves objectively, by looking at themselves in 64 society from "the outside." The transition they made from art for art's sake to "art for life's sake" made possible the "great cultural revisionism of the twenties." A_ Kan from the North is essentially an existentialist document: the protagonist , Richard Larch, illustrates the development of t^e chronic hypochondria of "Western experience," while Sophia, in The Old Wives' Tale, is the prototype of modern man "setenced to sterility." Neither she nor Constance is allowed the "centrality of consciousness" which, in Clayhanger, clearly provides fie roots of the stream-of-consciousness novel. The "Mrs Brown" aspects of E's Edwardian work do not illustrate a naturalistic obsession, but are part of a "process of aggrandizement of the self through the assimilation of a hostile external reality." B stands as a novelist whose new positive view of health tended to replace God for modern man. [An "Appendix" discusses the condition of scholarship in the área of the Edwardian novel.~\ Bradbury, Malcolm. The Social Context of Modern English Literature (wY: Schocken Books, 1971), pp. xxxl, xxxll, 28, 30, 55, 78n, 89, 93, 142, 149, 151n, 154-55. 157, 158-59. 196, 207n, 209, 224. E, who protested against experimentalism, could not deny it some significance in his own work and vision. The sense of an intensified "modernity" is, from the end of the nineteenth century onward, broadly spread, appearing as much in the "realism " of B as in Ulysses. B is clearly in the line of Zola's "le roman experimental," exhibiting a circumstantial realism and a belief that heredity and physiology determine human character. [The idea that E was a "protester" against "experimentalism " is an odd one. See Samuel Hynes, The Author's Craft and Other Critical Writings...