The Framework of Fiction: Socio-cultural Approaches to the Novel'...offers thoughtful summaries and critiques of both Marxist...and moralist...theories of the novel in society. The primary focus, however, is on a detailed study of the social context of the novel and the changing relationship between novelists and their readers...' |
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Page 129
... Dickens's alteration of the ending to Great Expectations to make it more ' agreeable ' and Alexander Macmillan's rejection of Hardy's first novel , The Poor Man and the Lady , with these words : ' Your pictures of character among ...
... Dickens's alteration of the ending to Great Expectations to make it more ' agreeable ' and Alexander Macmillan's rejection of Hardy's first novel , The Poor Man and the Lady , with these words : ' Your pictures of character among ...
Page 132
... Dickens , who had not yet written a word of it commented : ' Once , and but once only in my life , I was – frightened ! ' - John Butt and Kathleen Tillotson in their account of Dickens's working routine ( Dickens at Work , Methuen 1958 ) ...
... Dickens , who had not yet written a word of it commented : ' Once , and but once only in my life , I was – frightened ! ' - John Butt and Kathleen Tillotson in their account of Dickens's working routine ( Dickens at Work , Methuen 1958 ) ...
Page 133
... Dickens's serial methods ( Dickens as a Serial Novelist Iowa State Press , 1967 ) Archibald Coolidge relates them to a need for progression , coupled with a desire to present a broad canvas , packed with detail and incident , but ...
... Dickens's serial methods ( Dickens as a Serial Novelist Iowa State Press , 1967 ) Archibald Coolidge relates them to a need for progression , coupled with a desire to present a broad canvas , packed with detail and incident , but ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
Copyright | |
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