Impure worlds [electronic resource] : the institution of literature in the age of the novel / Jonathan Arac.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arac, Jonathan, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Politics and literature--History--19th century.

Politics and literature.

Literature and society--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 210 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.

Summary:

This volume records a critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives. A preference for impurity and a search for how to explain it are threads in this book as its chapters pursue the entanglements of culture, politics, and society from which great literature arises.

Contents:

pt. 1. Politics and the canon

pt. 2. Language and reality in the age of the novel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-4114-9

0-8232-3180-1

OCLC:

708566791