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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... JOHN : That's right . THOMAS : Would the best way of tackling it be to give a run- down on some of the main theories first ? JOHN : To deal with the topic adequately you'll have to describe the leading theoretical work . . . . THOMAS ...
... JOHN : That's right . THOMAS : Would the best way of tackling it be to give a run- down on some of the main theories first ? JOHN : To deal with the topic adequately you'll have to describe the leading theoretical work . . . . THOMAS ...
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Socio-cultural Approaches to the Novel John Bull. by its imaginative forms of expression ? PATIENCE : Or failing to be shored up ? JOHN : Yes . Eagleton implicates most writers in the business of implementing middle - class hegemony but ...
Socio-cultural Approaches to the Novel John Bull. by its imaginative forms of expression ? PATIENCE : Or failing to be shored up ? JOHN : Yes . Eagleton implicates most writers in the business of implementing middle - class hegemony but ...
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... John Prebble , Culloden ( Penguin , 1967 ) John Henry Raleigh , ' What Scott meant to the Victorians ' , Victorian Studies ( September 1963 ) Sir Walter Scott , Letters , ed . Grigson ( Constable , 1932 ) Richard L. Stein , ' Historical ...
... John Prebble , Culloden ( Penguin , 1967 ) John Henry Raleigh , ' What Scott meant to the Victorians ' , Victorian Studies ( September 1963 ) Sir Walter Scott , Letters , ed . Grigson ( Constable , 1932 ) Richard L. Stein , ' Historical ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
Copyright | |
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