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 19
... influence of these channels on the inter - relationship between authors , publishers and public . Chapter 6 is devoted to the transition from the ' classical ' nineteenth - century novel to the more flexible form of today . It therefore ...
... influence of these channels on the inter - relationship between authors , publishers and public . Chapter 6 is devoted to the transition from the ' classical ' nineteenth - century novel to the more flexible form of today . It therefore ...
Page 24
... influential French artistic and political circles . De Staël's De la Littérature , written in 1800 , attempted to relate literature above all to the influence of climate . ' Southern ' ( i.e. Mediterranean ) writers . were said to react ...
... influential French artistic and political circles . De Staël's De la Littérature , written in 1800 , attempted to relate literature above all to the influence of climate . ' Southern ' ( i.e. Mediterranean ) writers . were said to react ...
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... influence , the editor . Kathleen Tillotson gives two examples of this : one political , Charles Kingley's Yeast which Fraser's Magazine asked the author to curtail when subscriptions were cancelled by offended readers , and one ...
... influence , the editor . Kathleen Tillotson gives two examples of this : one political , Charles Kingley's Yeast which Fraser's Magazine asked the author to curtail when subscriptions were cancelled by offended readers , and one ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
Copyright | |
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