The Nineteenth-Century English Novel: Family Ideology and Narrative Form
James F. Kilroy
The novel is the literary form that most extensively informs us of nineteenth-century English culture: not its realities but the ideologies that shaped social beliefs. Fiction not only reflects ideologies; it participates in their formation and modification. But ideologies shift rapidly ?- more than actualities of personal or social life, making the form of the novel shift accordingly. Consideration of four pairs of English novels, each of which extensively treats the most critical issue of the period ?- the survival of the family ?- shows how changes in ideology prompted fundamental revisions of fictional techniques and structures.
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Année:
2007
Edition:
First Edition
Langue:
english
Pages:
232
ISBN 10:
1403976465
ISBN 13:
9781403976468
Fichier:
PDF, 720 KB
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english, 2007