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Originally published in 1984, this book argues that there is an inherited suspicion from the nineteenth-century that the historical novel after Scott is essentially a 'costume' affair, a dashing tale of times of old, suited only to minor talents and undiscerning readers. Though Scott inaugurated the period of the novel's greatest accomplishments, the specific tradition he founded seems to peter out into relative sterility. This book challenges such a view, and in doing so, offers a major reappraisal of the mainstream Victorian novel. Peter Smith argues that Scott's abiding concern was with the nature of historical change, not in remote but in modern times, and that a similar concern is equally fundamental to Dickens, Flaubert, Henry James and Conrad. In a series of readings of Little Dorrit, L'education sentimentale, Bouvard et Pecuchet, The Princess Casamassima, The Ambassadors and Nostromo, he offers a fresh interpretation not only of these works but of their authors' careers as a whole showing how each of them accommodated personal perceptions and stories of private life to an examination of public values and political upheavals.
Llegir més - Autor/a Jackie Bolen Jennifer Booker Smith Stephen-Peter Jinks
- ISBN13 9780521128759
- ISBN10 0521128757
- Pàgines 256
- Any Edició 2010
- Fecha de publicación 04/02/2010
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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Public and Private Value: Studies in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Alemany, Francès)
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- Jackie Bolen Jennifer Booker Smith Stephen-Peter Jinks
- 9780521128759



