UID:
edocfu_9959231814902883
Format:
1 online resource (257 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-98024-8
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1-134-98025-6
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1-280-53964-X
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9786610539642
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0-203-13213-0
Series Statement:
The novel in history
Content:
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 literary history. It highlights how narrative shifts from one construction of time to another and reformulates fundamental ideas of identity, nature and society. Elizabeth Ermarth discusses the
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; DEDICATION; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 NARRATIVE AND NATURE; 2 THE IDEA OF HISTORY; 3 SOCIETY AS AN ENTITY; 4 DILEMMAS OF DIFFERENCE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-01500-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-01499-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203132135
