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Tradition and Tolerance in Nineteenth Century Fiction

Critical Essays on Some English and American Novels

John Lucas editor David Howard editor John Goode editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:12th Dec '17

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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.

ISBN: 9781138675506

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 408g

290 pages