| Tradition and Tolerance in Nineteenth Century Fiction: Critical Essays on Some English and American Novels Contributor(s): Howard, David (Editor), Lucas, John (Editor), Goode, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138675504 ISBN-13: 9781138675506 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel |
| Physical Information: 290 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |