The Japanese Quince (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Bradbury, Malcolm and James McFarlane, editors. Modernism: 1890-1930, Penguin, 1991.

  A study considering the critical movement known as Modernism, which emerged in the years 1890-1930. Providing a comprehensive survey of the various art forms expressive of Modernism, this study examines the defining features of the movement.

• Cox, C. B. and Dyson, A. E., editors. The Twentieth-Century Mind: History, Ideas, and Literature in Britain, Oxford University Press, 1972.

  This collection invites a number of well-known scholars to write about the climate of thought in the early twentieth-century in Britain. The essays address, among other things, the social, political, economic, and religious conditions of life in the first quarter of the twentieth century.

• Dupre, Catherine. John Galsworthy: A Biography, Collins, 1976.

  An authoritative, thorough look at the events of Galsworthy’s life.

• “John Galsworthy,” in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 22, edited by Margaret Haerens, Gale, 1996, pp. 55-103.

  Contains excerpts of previously published criticism on Galsworthy’s works. Included are excerpts from critical works by Sheila Kaye-Smith, L. P. Hartley, Isabel Paterson, and Sanford Sternlicht, among many others.

• Ginden, James. John Galsworthy’s Life and Art, University of Michigan Press, 1979.

  Contextualizing its discussion through historical material, this study considers the ways in which the social and cultural conditions of Galsworthy’s life came to influence his life’s work.

• Perrine, Laurence. Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 5th ed., Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1988, pp. 61 – 4.

  Argues that “The Japanese Quince” is a commentary upon social class. Perrine interprets the characters of Nilson and Tandram as men who are representatives of their social class, and the quince tree as “a radiant symbol for beauty, joy, life, growth, freedom, ecstasy.”