The Sociology of Literature

ability allowed Altick analysis approach argued argument artist attempt audience authors Balzac Barbara Cartland belief Bell's bourgeois bourgeoisie chapter character complex concept concern consequence considered creative criticism D. H. Lawrence David Lodge described discussion emphasis English example explain fact fiction Fiedler Frankfurt School Gedin Gellner genre gratifications heroes historical human imagination important insistence intellectual interest language Leslie Fiedler Lionel Trilling literary culture literary impulse Lukacs manner Marxist mass mass media matter means metonymy middle class modernism modernist modernist novels myth nature nineteenth century noted novelists offered particular perhaps political popular literature position possible Proust publishing Puritan question Raymond Williams readers reading public realised reality role romantic Saul Bellow Secondly seems seen sense social content social experience social referent society sociology of literature story stress structuralist suggests Swingewood Symons tend theme theory traditional values whilst Williams words writers