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 174
... Tess reveals it to her mother on her return from Trantridge . There are also lesser differences between this serialised version and the Wessex Novels edition of 1912 , which forms the basis of what the modern reader knows of Tess . They ...
... Tess reveals it to her mother on her return from Trantridge . There are also lesser differences between this serialised version and the Wessex Novels edition of 1912 , which forms the basis of what the modern reader knows of Tess . They ...
Page 175
... Tess : whether this is so or not , it is interesting to note that the material could be published provided it was ... Tess murders Alec ) . The transition to book form was a creative one in that it enabled Hardy to make other changes ...
... Tess : whether this is so or not , it is interesting to note that the material could be published provided it was ... Tess murders Alec ) . The transition to book form was a creative one in that it enabled Hardy to make other changes ...
Page 176
... Tess and Jude the Obscure , which appeared two years later , and which both feature main characters drawn from the less privileged classes , undermine the tradition of country writing in which ' the poor were usually noticed as objects ...
... Tess and Jude the Obscure , which appeared two years later , and which both feature main characters drawn from the less privileged classes , undermine the tradition of country writing in which ' the poor were usually noticed as objects ...
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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