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 122
... Mudie's Protectorate Although the circulating libraries which originated in the eighteenth century had several Victorian successors none were as important as W.H. Smith's and Mudie's . In terms of influence , social prestige and sheer ...
... Mudie's Protectorate Although the circulating libraries which originated in the eighteenth century had several Victorian successors none were as important as W.H. Smith's and Mudie's . In terms of influence , social prestige and sheer ...
Page 123
... Mudie's Select Library ' . Mudie's freely expressed policy of choosing his stock to match rather than extend contemporary middle - class taste has caused his biographer Guinevere Griest to refer to his ' protectorate ' over the ...
... Mudie's Select Library ' . Mudie's freely expressed policy of choosing his stock to match rather than extend contemporary middle - class taste has caused his biographer Guinevere Griest to refer to his ' protectorate ' over the ...
Page 126
... Mudie's main rival , Smith's , had its origins in a rare failure of financial acumen , when Mudie declined to open branches on railway stations to serve travellers . The energetic William H. Smith who pioneered the station bookstalls ...
... Mudie's main rival , Smith's , had its origins in a rare failure of financial acumen , when Mudie declined to open branches on railway stations to serve travellers . The energetic William H. Smith who pioneered the station bookstalls ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
Copyright | |
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The Framework of Fiction: Socio-cultural Approaches to the Novel John Bull No preview available - 1988 |
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