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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... example would be Leslie Stephen's advice to Hardy : ' Remember the country parson's daughters . I have always to remember them ! ' In the textual histories of novels we can find examples such as the expurgations made in Lawrence's works ...
... example would be Leslie Stephen's advice to Hardy : ' Remember the country parson's daughters . I have always to remember them ! ' In the textual histories of novels we can find examples such as the expurgations made in Lawrence's works ...
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... examples of the working of this mediation process are the nineteenth - century development of serial and instalment publishing with its effect on the internal structure of many of Dickens's novels ( for example ) and in the twentieth ...
... examples of the working of this mediation process are the nineteenth - century development of serial and instalment publishing with its effect on the internal structure of many of Dickens's novels ( for example ) and in the twentieth ...
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... example - institutions , educational or cultural , and formations , by which Williams denotes ' conscious movements and tendencies ( literary , artistic , philosophical or scientific ) ' . At a more detailed level hegemony expresses ...
... example - institutions , educational or cultural , and formations , by which Williams denotes ' conscious movements and tendencies ( literary , artistic , philosophical or scientific ) ' . At a more detailed level hegemony expresses ...
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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