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 35
... political approach in favour of leaving the readers to draw their own conclusions . In a later comment on Margaret Harkness's novel , A City Girl , on the other hand he advocated recourse to the ' typicality ' which Marxist critics such ...
... political approach in favour of leaving the readers to draw their own conclusions . In a later comment on Margaret Harkness's novel , A City Girl , on the other hand he advocated recourse to the ' typicality ' which Marxist critics such ...
Page 62
... political authority to what in the nineteenth century came to be known as the middle classes . Many historians believe that this political and constitutional shift of power accompanied an economic shift away from the traditional forms ...
... political authority to what in the nineteenth century came to be known as the middle classes . Many historians believe that this political and constitutional shift of power accompanied an economic shift away from the traditional forms ...
Page 65
... politics [ Diana Spearman ] implies , the old fundamentals remain little changed . This is not the view of the leading authorities , who see the later seventeenth century as a political watershed . As for the nation's work , of course ...
... politics [ Diana Spearman ] implies , the old fundamentals remain little changed . This is not the view of the leading authorities , who see the later seventeenth century as a political watershed . As for the nation's work , of course ...
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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