This volume examines the great writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, from Thomas Hardy to Joseph Conrad.

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The New Novel -- A Parting of the Ways -- Conrad and Modern English Fiction -- Obscure Writing and Private Life, 1880-1914 -- Edwardian Literature -- Problematic Presence: The Colonial Other in Kipling and Conrad -- The Late Nineteenth Century Novel and the Change Towards the Sexual: Gissing, Hardy and Lawrence -- A Woven Tapestry of Interests -- The Other Victim: Jude the Obscure and The Whirlpool -- The Pleasures of Imperialism -- The Opening World, 1900-1915 -- The Avoidance of Naturalism -- Incorporated Bodies: Dracula and the Rise of Professionalism -- Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic -- Gothic Emotion, Gender, and Ethics in Fiction by Thomas Hardy and the New Woman Writers: Conclusions? -- Rainbow's End: The Janus Period -- Chronology.