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The comfort of strangers : social life and literary form / Gage McWeeny.
LIBRA PR468.S57 M39 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McWeeny, Gage.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Social change in literature.
- Strangers in literature.
- Community life in literature.
- Social psychology in literature.
- Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 225 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199797202
- 019979720X
- OCLC:
- 922726534
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