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The Theory of the Novel in England, 1850-1870
Author: Richard StangThe Theory of Novel in England 1850-1870
Author: Richard StangThe Theory of the Novel in England, 1850-1870
Author: Richard StangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The Theory of the Novel in England, 1850-1870
Author: Richard StangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Theory of the Novel in England
Author: Richard StangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Empiricism and the Early Theory of the Novel
Author: Roger MaioliPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319398598
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This book is about the empiricist challenge to literature, and its influence on eighteenth-century theories of fiction. British empiricism from Bacon to Hume challenged the notion that imaginative literature can be a reliable source of knowledge. This book argues that theorists of the novel, from Henry Fielding to Jane Austen, recognized the force of the empiricist challenge but refused to capitulate. It traces how, in their reflections on the novel, these writers attempted to formulate a theoretical link between the world of experience and the products of the imagination, and thus update the old defenses of poetry for empirical times. Taken together, the empiricist challenge and the responses it elicited signaled a transition in the longstanding debate about literature and knowledge, as an inaugural round in the persisting conflict between the empirical sciences and the literary humanities.
The Theory of the Novel in England, 1950-1870
Author: Richard StangCritical Theory and the Novel
Author: David Bruce SuchoffPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299140847
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A study of the historical origins of cultural criticism in the novel since the mid-19th century, using the critical theory of the Frankfurt School to declare the critical force of mass culture as crucial to the making of the modern novel. Discusses how mass audiences and politics presented problems to major novelists and how they responded in their writings and lives. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Physiology of the Novel
Author: Nicholas DamesPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199208964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
How did the Victorians read novels? Nicholas Dames answers that deceptively simple question by revealing a now-forgotten range of nineteenth-century theories of the novel, a range based in a study of human physiology during the act of reading, He demonstrates the ways in which the Victorians thought they read, and uncovers surprising responses to the question of what might have transpired in the minds and bodies of readers of Victorian fiction. His detailed studies of novelcritics who were also interested in neurological science, combined with readings of novels by Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, and Gissing, propose a vision of the Victorian novel-reader as far from the quietly immersed being we now imagine - as instead a reader whose nervous system was addressed, attacked, andsoothed by authors newly aware of the neural operations of their public. Rich in unexpected intersections, from the British response to Wagnerian opera to the birth of speed-reading in the late nineteenth century, The Physiology of the Novel challenges our assumptions about what novel-reading once did, and still does, to the individual reader, and provides new answers to the question of how novels influenced a culture's way of reading, responding, and feeling.
An Introduction to the English Novel (2 Vols)
Author: Arnold KettlePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317356578
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
First published in 1951, the two volumes of An Introduction to the English Novel discuss how and why the novel developed in England in the eighteenth century. The books look at the function and background of prose fiction, focusing its arguments around the study of carefully selected books that have had a significant impact on its development. The author examines the progress in the long struggle of the novelist to see life steadily and whole, and points out some of the problems and hazards that beset the writer still.