Modernism and the fate of individuality : character and novelistic form from Conrad to Woolf

Preface 1. Two cultures and an individual: Conrad's Heart of Darkness and James's The Ambassadors 2. Liberalism and symbolism in Howards End 3. Justification, passion, freedom: Character in The Good Soldier 4. Form's body: Lewis's Tarr 5. 'The passion of opposition' in Women in Love: none, one, two, few, many 6. From the epic To the Lighthouse.