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 91
... three - volume novel and remained so until the 1890s . - The three - volume novel or three - decker which developed into the staple of the Victorian fiction industry will be considered in more detail in the next chapter . It is worth ...
... three - volume novel and remained so until the 1890s . - The three - volume novel or three - decker which developed into the staple of the Victorian fiction industry will be considered in more detail in the next chapter . It is worth ...
Page 126
... three - decker was for all these reasons endowed with a prestige which remained with it for most of the century . There are many stories of publishers discouraging their authors from using anything but the three - volume length and of ...
... three - decker was for all these reasons endowed with a prestige which remained with it for most of the century . There are many stories of publishers discouraging their authors from using anything but the three - volume length and of ...
Page 155
... three - volume edition and the single - volume 6s . reprint grew shorter and shorter . The lending libraries began to be threatened economically by this practice at the same time as the spread of free public libraries reduced their ...
... three - volume edition and the single - volume 6s . reprint grew shorter and shorter . The lending libraries began to be threatened economically by this practice at the same time as the spread of free public libraries reduced their ...
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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