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 112
... class as con- firmed after 1848 with the failure of the political revolutions in Europe and of associated social movements such as Chartism in Great Britain . From this date the middle class and working class who had combined against ...
... class as con- firmed after 1848 with the failure of the political revolutions in Europe and of associated social movements such as Chartism in Great Britain . From this date the middle class and working class who had combined against ...
Page 151
... Working Man ( 1963 ) argues that efforts to cater specifically for the working classes go back to the beginning of ... class radicalism in the 1840s had subsided . James is careful to stress that the failure of the latter is not to be blamed ...
... Working Man ( 1963 ) argues that efforts to cater specifically for the working classes go back to the beginning of ... class radicalism in the 1840s had subsided . James is careful to stress that the failure of the latter is not to be blamed ...
Page 209
... working class , and in the same period growing middle - class fear of crime had merged with a suspicion of working - class political agitation , to create a generalised anxiety over the threat to ' respectable society ' . In literary ...
... working class , and in the same period growing middle - class fear of crime had merged with a suspicion of working - class political agitation , to create a generalised anxiety over the threat to ' respectable society ' . In literary ...
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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