Tradition and Tolerance in Nineteenth Century Fiction

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19th Century
Alice Marwood
Anglo-American novelists
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Besant’s Lecture
Blithedale Romance
Brook Farm
Captain Cuttle
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Clem Peckover
Copper Field
Criticism
cultural transformation studies
Emergent Society
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failure of inclusiveness in novels
Free Woman
historical context fiction
History
John Goode
John Lucas
La Joie De Vivre
Leatherstocking Series
literary criticism essays
Literature
Main Characters
Martin Chuzzlewit
Miss Tox
Natty Bumppo
Nether World
nineteenth-century literature
Novel
Princess Casamassima
Rich Goods
Scarlet Letter
Stagg's Gardens
Stagg’s Gardens
Superb
Veiled Lady
Victorian social change
Wooden Midshipman
Young Goodman Brown
Young Man

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138675452
  • Weight: 700g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Jul 2016
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1966, this book collects six essays which discuss the experience of social change as it reveals itself in the work of several nineteenth century novelists. In the novels studied, and the discussion of fiction that follows, the authors argue that all these novelists’ attempts to confront social change — to connect old with new, past with present and the attempted inclusiveness of vision in a changing society — sooner or later fail. The essays are polemic in arguing against the contemporary critical consensus that this failure is a limitation of imaginative intelligence rather than an endorsement of a receding past which the process of change was charged with destroying.

David Howard, John Lucas, John Goode