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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gage McWeeny |
ISBN: | 9780190887421 0190887427 9780199797202 019979720X 9780199797288 0199797285 |
OCLC Number: | 1099798043 |
Description: | xi, 225 Seiten Illustrationen |
Contents: | Introduction: the comfort of strangersMatthew Arnold's crowd management -- Losing interest in George Eliot -- Oscar Wilde's ephemeral form -- Henry James's art of distance -- Afterword. |
Responsibility: | Gage McWeeny |
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a vibrant contribution to the study of literary form's entanglements with the methods and concerns of emerging social science * Camilla Cassidy, Times Literary Supplement * ...the real thrust of the book is not really historical, but rather theoretical. The core contention is that Arnold, Eliot, Wilde, and James theorize the social in complex and compelling ways, and those ways affect the formal patterns in their art. That claim seems interesting and important regardless of whether it is the product of the rise of a new kind of society in the nineteenth century. And if the current turn toward presentism in Victorian studies ends upchanging the field, perhaps at least one of the changes it might induce would be a willingness to take such claims seriously in their own right. * Patrick Fessenbecker, Victorian Studies * Read more...


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