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Expulsion and the Nineteenth-century novel : the scapegoat in English realist fiction
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heyns, Michiel, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--History and criticism--19th century--Great Britain.
- English fiction.
- Scapegoat in literature--History--19th century.
- Scapegoat in literature.
- Literature and society.
- Realism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 293 p.)
- Other Title:
- Expulsion and the nineteenth-century novel
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Places the realist novel in the centre of current debates by examining the notion that such novels reinforced existing social structures. Heyns's readings depict the 19th-century literary scapegoat as begetter of an alternative vision which questioned the values upheld by the novel as a whole.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780191673870 (ebook) :
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