English fiction of the early modern period 1890-1940

Surviving giants: Hardy and James

Joseph Conrad and the politics of power

Rudyard Kipling: imperial responsibility and literary escape

E. M.Forster: the proclamations of the liberal agnostic

Fictional politics and some minor forms

Arnold Bennett on the Pentonville omnibus

Virginia Woolf and the search for the common reader

Modernism and its implications

James Joyce, the professors and the common reader

The reading public and the rise of a profession

D.H. Lawrence: our Bert versus our Lorenzo

The 1930s: an aftermath.