The comfort of strangers [electronic resource] : social life and literary form / Gage McWeeny.
2016
PR468.S57 M39 2016eb
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The comfort of strangers [electronic resource] : social life and literary form / Gage McWeeny.
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ISBN
9780190461188 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 225 pages)
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199797202 doi
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PR468.S57 M39 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9355
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This text argues for a new understanding of the relation between nineteenth-century realist literary form and the socially dense environments of modernity.
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This text argues for a new understanding of the relation between nineteenth-century realist literary form and the socially dense environments of modernity.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: the comfort of strangers
Matthew Arnold's crowd management
Losing interest in George Eliot
Oscar Wilde's ephemeral form
Henry James's art of distance
Afterword.
Matthew Arnold's crowd management
Losing interest in George Eliot
Oscar Wilde's ephemeral form
Henry James's art of distance
Afterword.