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Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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The construction of history as a social common denominator is a powerful achievement of the nineteenth-century novel, a form dedicated to experimenting with democratic social practice as it conflicts with economic and feudal visions of social order. Through revisionary readings of familiar nineteenth-century texts The English Novel in History 1840-1895 takes a multidisciplinary approach to... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgements. Part 1. Narative and Nature 1. Prologue: A Pattern and a Purpose 2.Narrative With Clouds of Glory 3. Nature Knows Best 4. Rhetoric and History: Sequence in The Bronte's, Thackeray, and Early Dickens 5. Narrative in the Wasteland 6. Moving On Part 2. The Idea of History 7. Prologue: Getting Coordinates 8. Constructing Historical (Social) Time 9. Mediate Power 10. Emergent Form Part 3. Society as an Entity 11. Prologue: The Symphony 12. Is There Such a Thing as Society? 13. The Economic Experiment with Corporate Order 14. Cruising the Boundaries of Difference: Class, Personality, System, Part 4. Dilemma of Difference 15. Difference and Duality: Club, Class, Clan, 16. Home is Where the Fault-Line Is 17. Running Costs of the Marriage Market 18. Women and Time Bibliography
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Elizabeth Ermarth
'Invites discussion and is bound to generate fruitful controversy.' - Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
