The Sociology of Literature

ability allowed Altick analysis approach argued argument artist attempt audience authors Balzac Barbara Cartland belief Bell's bourgeois Bourgeois Literacy bourgeoisie century chapter character complex concept concern consequence considered creative criticism CRUZ The University D. H. Lawrence David Lodge described discussion emphasis English example explain fact fiction Fiedler Frankfurt School Gedin Gellner genre heroes historical human imagination important insistence intellectual interest language Leslie Fiedler Library Lionel Trilling literary culture literary impulse London Lukács Marxist mass mass media matter means metonymy middle class modernism modernist modernist novels myth nature noted novelists offered particular perhaps political popular literature position possible Proust publishing Puritan question Raymond Williams readers reading public realised reality role romantic Saul Bellow Secondly seems seen sense social experience social referent society sociology of literature story stress structuralist suggests Swingewood Symons tend theme theory traditional whilst Williams words writers