A01=Patricia Meyer Spacks
Author_Patricia Meyer Spacks
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226768458
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 17 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 20 Apr 1990
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Desire and Truth offers a major reassessment of the history of eighteenth-century fiction by showing how plot challenges or reinforces conventional categories of passion and rationality. Arguing that fiction creates and conveys its essential truths through plot, Patricia Meyer Spacks demonstrates that eighteenth-century fiction is both profoundly realistic and consistently daring.
