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 117
... libraries and later on the public lending libraries , the earliest of which were established in 1850 ; however , this group would of course have overlapped with the other two . In any case it was scarcely large : Suvin estimates that ...
... libraries and later on the public lending libraries , the earliest of which were established in 1850 ; however , this group would of course have overlapped with the other two . In any case it was scarcely large : Suvin estimates that ...
Page 155
... libraries began to be threatened economically by this practice at the same time as the spread of free public libraries reduced their potential custom . By the 1880s dissatisfaction with the selectiveness and prud- ery of the libraries ...
... libraries began to be threatened economically by this practice at the same time as the spread of free public libraries reduced their potential custom . By the 1880s dissatisfaction with the selectiveness and prud- ery of the libraries ...
Page 156
... libraries can be dated from this point although the ' snob ' value of subscribing to a commercial library rather than the new free public libraries allowed them to cling on until well into the next century . For the reader the benefit ...
... libraries can be dated from this point although the ' snob ' value of subscribing to a commercial library rather than the new free public libraries allowed them to cling on until well into the next century . For the reader the benefit ...
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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