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Economies of change : form and transformation in the nineteenth-century novel
- Title
- Economies of change : form and transformation in the nineteenth-century novel / Michal Peled Ginsburg.
- Author
- Ginsburg, Michal Peled, 1947-
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1996.
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| Text | Request in advance | PR868.S615 G56 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 251 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book argues against the tendency of much of literary studies today to mistake the critique of formalism for a license to disregard form altogether. In detailed readings of ten novels (by Balzac, Stendahl, Austen, Dickens, and James), the author shows how novelists, in their practice of novelistic representation, deal with certain cultural issues, social values, and ideological purposes through the particular combination and manipulation of a set of formal possibilities.
- The analysis of each novel centers around the notion of transformation - or the "economy of change" - as it informs the text and our understanding of it, arguing that transformation is not only a basic category of narrative structure but also the key to the link between literary form and cultural context.
- Throughout, the book addresses topical issues in current literary theory and cultural studies, such as the cultural significance of narrative and its historical dimension, in a distinctly practical manner, showing how, in a number of determinate cases, narrative actually works.
- Subjects
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Literature and society > France > History > 19th century
- French fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Form (Philosophy) in literature
- Literary form
- Change in literature
- Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Mimesis in literature
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-248) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Reading Temporality in La Peau de chagrin -- 2. Escaping Death: The Gendered Economy of Le Lys dans la vallee -- 3. Beyond Oppositions, the Limit: Stendhal's Abbesse de Castro -- 4. The Prison House of Parma -- 5. Mansfield Park: Representing Proper Distinctions -- 6. Staying at Home with Emma Woodhouse -- 7. The Case Against Plot in Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend -- 8. Mortgaging Freedom: The Aesthetic and Its Limit in The Princess Casamassima -- 9. The Awkward Age: Modern Consciousness and the Sense of the Past.
- ISBN
- 0804726116 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 95039789
- OCLC
- ocm33133109
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries