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 115
... figures for sales would not have included the kind of multiple readership implied by borrowing from libraries or friends or by listening to family readings . Nevertheless the figure of 40,000 copies for each of the instalments in which ...
... figures for sales would not have included the kind of multiple readership implied by borrowing from libraries or friends or by listening to family readings . Nevertheless the figure of 40,000 copies for each of the instalments in which ...
Page 133
... figures for the instalment or periodical and the nineteenth - century equivalent of ' fan - mail ' or the reverse . We know that Dickens responded to the latter by for instance altering a character in David Copperfield because the woman ...
... figures for the instalment or periodical and the nineteenth - century equivalent of ' fan - mail ' or the reverse . We know that Dickens responded to the latter by for instance altering a character in David Copperfield because the woman ...
Page 165
... figures show that there were 6,111 full - time authors , editors and journalists , a figure which rose to 11,060 by 1901. Although most of these may have been journalists , this itself may indicate the existence for authors of another ...
... figures show that there were 6,111 full - time authors , editors and journalists , a figure which rose to 11,060 by 1901. Although most of these may have been journalists , this itself may indicate the existence for authors of another ...
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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