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Impure Worlds : The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel /
This book records a major critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives-that is, politics. A preference for impurity and a search for how to analyze and explain it are guiding threads in this book as its chapters pursue the...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- I. Politics and the Canon
- 1. The Impact of Shakespeare: Goethe to Melville
- 2. The Media of Sublimity: Johnson and Lamb on King Lear
- 3. Hamlet, Little Dorrit, and the History of Character
- 4. The Struggle for the Cultural Heritage: Christina Stead Refunctions Charles Dickens and Mark Twain
- 5. The Birth of Huck's Nation
- II. Language and Reality in the Age of the Novel
- 6. Narrative Form and Social Sense in Bleak House and The French Revolution
- 7. Rhetoric and Realism: Hyperbole in The Mill on the Floss
- 8. Rhetoric and Realism; or, Marxism, Deconstruction, and Madame Bovary
- 9. Baudelaire's Impure Transfers: Allegory, Translation, Prostitution, Correspondence
- 10. Huckleberry Finn without Polemic
- Notes
- Index