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 114
... Oliver Twist which owes something to the ' Newgate ' genre , named after the notorious London prison , and held ( though sometimes wrongly ) to romanticise crime and criminals . The ' Newgate ' novel created a stir in the 1830s with the ...
... Oliver Twist which owes something to the ' Newgate ' genre , named after the notorious London prison , and held ( though sometimes wrongly ) to romanticise crime and criminals . The ' Newgate ' novel created a stir in the 1830s with the ...
Page 129
... Oliver Twist ' : Serial Form Dickens's first novel published in serial format makes an ideal illustration of the ... Oliver Twist in the more traditional guise of magazine instalments , shorter than the part - issues but spread over a ...
... Oliver Twist ' : Serial Form Dickens's first novel published in serial format makes an ideal illustration of the ... Oliver Twist in the more traditional guise of magazine instalments , shorter than the part - issues but spread over a ...
Page 131
... Oliver Twist occurs at the end of the original sixth instalment ( now Chapter 13 ) , when Fagin sends the Artful Dodger to retrieve Oliver from Mr Brownlow with the sinister concluding threat : ' If he means to blab us among his new ...
... Oliver Twist occurs at the end of the original sixth instalment ( now Chapter 13 ) , when Fagin sends the Artful Dodger to retrieve Oliver from Mr Brownlow with the sinister concluding threat : ' If he means to blab us among his new ...
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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