Populating the novel: literary form and the politics of surplus life
Auteur :
Steinlight, Emily
Éditeur :
Cornell University Press
ISBN :
9781501710704
Date de publication :
15 mars 2018
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,7 cm
Poids :
907 g
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
From the teeming streets of Dickens’s London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life. In Populating the Novel, Emily Steinlight contends that rather than simply reflecting demographic growth, such pervasive literary crowding contributed to a seismic...