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John Galsworthy’s Compassion

All Beings Great and Small

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Authors:
  1. Jill Felicity Durey

    1. Edith Cowan University, School of Arts and Humanities, Perth, Australia

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  • First book of literary criticism on Galsworthy in the twenty-first century

  • Uses his realist style of writing, in fiction, drama, and non-fiction

  • Examines Galsworthy’s humanitarian writing through the prism of contemporary

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Compassion in The Forsyte Saga and The Modern Comedy

    • Jill Felicity Durey
    Pages 1-23

  3. Galsworthy and His Parents

    • Jill Felicity Durey
    Pages 25-43

  4. Prison Reform

    • Jill Felicity Durey
    Pages 45-65

  5. First World War Disablement

    • Jill Felicity Durey
    Pages 67-90

  6. Alien Internment

    • Jill Felicity Durey
    Pages 91-114

  7. Slum Clearance

    • Jill Felicity Durey
    Pages 115-145

  8. Labour Unrest

    • Jill Felicity Durey
    Pages 147-185

  9. Animal Welfare

    • Jill Felicity Durey
    Pages 187-208

  10. Vivisection

    • Jill Felicity Durey
    Pages 209-238

  11. Towards a Reassessment of Galsworthy as Artist

    • Jill Felicity Durey
    Pages 239-272

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 273-307
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This book discusses John Galsworthy’s compassion for people and animals, in his fiction, non-fiction and drama. Initial chapters explore compassion in The Forsyte Saga and The Modern Comedy, and his parents’ influence. Other chapters examine his works helping prison reform, men and children disabled during the First World War, and people whose relatives were interned as war-time alien enemies. Two chapters focus on slum clearance and labour unrest during the twentieth century’s first three decades. Another two concentrate on animal welfare and vivisection. The final chapter attempts to appraise Galsworthy as a writer by looking at what commentators past and present have said, and at what constitutes literature.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Edith Cowan University, School of Arts and Humanities, Perth, Australia

    Jill Felicity Durey

About the author

Jill Felicity Durey is a retired Honorary Associate Professor at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. Her publications include: Degrees of Intimacy: Cousin Marriage and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (2014), Trollope and the Church of England (2002), and Realism and Narrative Modality: The Hero and Heroine in Eliot, Tolstoy and Flaubert (1993).

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