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 120
... standard three - volume novel that made it a luxury commodity even for the middle classes . By the end of the century purchases by individuals of three- volume first editions were regarded as so abnormal and eccen- tric that a cartoon ...
... standard three - volume novel that made it a luxury commodity even for the middle classes . By the end of the century purchases by individuals of three- volume first editions were regarded as so abnormal and eccen- tric that a cartoon ...
Page 144
... standard language . Moreover , although dialect speech is put into the mouths of the Wilsons and Bartons generally ... standard syntax and only one or two non - standard ex- pressions , such as ' I'd a deal to bear ' . Wright comments ...
... standard language . Moreover , although dialect speech is put into the mouths of the Wilsons and Bartons generally ... standard syntax and only one or two non - standard ex- pressions , such as ' I'd a deal to bear ' . Wright comments ...
Page 193
... standard of education and were unable to afford even in lending library form the works of Thackeray , Eliot and Trollope . An effective rejoinder to the scenario of a twentieth - century collapse in standards can be found in this ...
... standard of education and were unable to afford even in lending library form the works of Thackeray , Eliot and Trollope . An effective rejoinder to the scenario of a twentieth - century collapse in standards can be found in this ...
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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