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
... Penguin edn . , p . 34 ) Mrs Gaskell's Mary Barton on the other hand belongs with a group of novels that attempt to deal with the ' Condition of England ' question , as first defined by Thomas Carlyle in an essay of 1839 on Chartism ...
... Penguin edn . , p . 34 ) Mrs Gaskell's Mary Barton on the other hand belongs with a group of novels that attempt to deal with the ' Condition of England ' question , as first defined by Thomas Carlyle in an essay of 1839 on Chartism ...
Page 170
... ( Penguin edn , p . 93 ) On the very next page to this one , dialect even enters the narrative - though possibly this could be regarded as ' free indirect speech ' ( see the discussion of Flaubert's ' discovery ' of this in Chapter 2 , p ...
... ( Penguin edn , p . 93 ) On the very next page to this one , dialect even enters the narrative - though possibly this could be regarded as ' free indirect speech ' ( see the discussion of Flaubert's ' discovery ' of this in Chapter 2 , p ...
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... edition of 1912 , which forms the basis of what the modern reader knows of Tess . They ... Penguin edition ) with ' cynical amusement ' ; the cynicism was born no ... edn . p . 499 ) Readers who came upon the story in this form would have ...
... edition of 1912 , which forms the basis of what the modern reader knows of Tess . They ... Penguin edition ) with ' cynical amusement ' ; the cynicism was born no ... edn . p . 499 ) Readers who came upon the story in this form would have ...
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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