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Subject(s)

• English fiction—19th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Social classes in literature [Browse]
• Literature and history—Great Britain—History—19th century [Browse]
• Literature and society—Great Britain—History—18th century [Browse]
• Social classes—Great Britain—History—19th century [Browse]
• Cultural pluralism in literature [Browse]
• Power (Social sciences) in literature [Browse]
• Sex role in literature [Browse]
• Great Britain—Social conditions—19th century [Browse]
• Great Britain—History—Victoria, 1837-1901 [Browse]

Series

• Novel in history. [More in this series]
• The novel in history

Summary note

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

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-241) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

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

ISBN

• 1-134-98024-8
• 1-134-98025-6
• 1-280-53964-X
• 9786610539642
• 0-203-13213-0

OCLC

• 277598859
• 560394703

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203132135

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