Impure Worlds : the Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel /

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This volume records a critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives. A preference for impurity and a search for how to explain it are threads in this book as its chapters pursue the entanglements of culture, politics, and so...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Arac, Jonathan, 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > History > 19th century.
Roman > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Politique et littérature > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et société > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Fiction
Literature and society
Politics and literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • I. Politics and the Canon. The Impact of Shakespeare: Goethe to Melville. The Media of Sublimity: Johnson and Lamb on King Lear
  • Hamlet, Little Dorrit, and the History of Character
  • The Struggle for the Cultural Heritage: Christina Stead Refunctions Charles Dickens and Mark Twain
  • The Birth of Huck's Nation
  • II. Language and Reality in the Age of the Novel. Narrative form and Social Sense in Bleak House and The French Revolution
  • Rhetoric and Realism: Hyperbole in the Mill on the Floss
  • Rhetoric and Realism; or, Marxism, Deconstruction, and Madame Bovary
  • Baudelaire's Impure Transfers: Allegory, Translation, Prostitution, Correspondence
  • Huckleberry Finn without Polemic.
  • pt. 1. Politics and the canon
  • pt. 2. Language and reality in the age of the novel.

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