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This book delineates Arnold Bennetts unique role in the transformation of the British novel from the aesthetic, psychological, and sociopolitical assumptions of modernity to those of modernism. The self-liberation foreseen by advocates of modernityMoreThis book delineates Arnold Bennetts unique role in the transformation of the British novel from the aesthetic, psychological, and sociopolitical assumptions of modernity to those of modernism. The self-liberation foreseen by advocates of modernity was hardly the obstruction to art that modernists claimed, nor, as Bennetts later novels show, was the gap between the Darwinian and Freudian worldviews so wide as the modernists presumed. Modernism, Modernity, And Arnold Bennett by Robert Squillace
