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Expulsion and the Nineteenth-century novel : the scapegoat in English realist fiction
- Title
- Expulsion and the Nineteenth-century novel : the scapegoat in English realist fiction / Michiel Heyns.
- Author
- Heyns, Michiel.
- Publication
- Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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- Description
- x, 293 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Novels, like communities, need scapegoats to rid them of their unexpressed anxieties. This has placed the realist novel under suspicion of collaborating with established authority, by reproducing through its means of representation the structures it seeks to criticize. Expulsion and the Nineteenth-Century Novel investigates this charge through close and illuminating readings of five realist novels of the nineteenth century: Austen's Mansfield Park, Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Conrad's Lord Jim, and James's The Golden Bowl. Looking at these works in relation to one another, to their literary and social contexts, and to modern critical thinking, Michiel Heyns depicts the nineteenth-century literary scapegoat - the ostensible victim of the expulsive pressure of plot - as begetter of an alternative narrative, questioning the values apparently upheld by the novel as a whole.
- Sceptical of unexamined abstractions, but appreciative of the acumen of much modern criticism, this lively and original book places the realist novel at the centre of current debates, while yet respecting the power of literature to anticipate the insights of its critics.
- Subject
- Dickens, Charles
- Eliot, George
- James, Henry
- Austen, Jane
- Conrad, Joseph
- 1800-1899
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Scapegoat in literature
- Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Realism in literature
- English fiction
- Literature and society
- Englisch
- Realismus
- Roman
- Sündenbock Motiv
- Sündenbock
- Zondebokken
- Fictie
- Engels
- Mansfield park (Austen)
- Daniel Deronda (Eliot)
- The golden bowl (James)
- Réalité > Dans la littérature
- Bouc émissaire > Dans la littérature
- Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Thèmes, motifs
- Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire universelle > 19e siècle
- Great Britain
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction: Complicity, Community, and Critical Method -- Ch. 1. A Divided Community: Fanny Price and the Readers of Mansfield Park -- Ch. 2. 'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love . . .': Privileged Partnership in Dickens -- Ch. 3. A Peculiar Compassion: George Eliot and Gwendolen Harleth -- Ch. 4. The Solidarity of the Craft and the Fellowship of Illusion: Lord Jim -- Ch. 5. A Community of Interest: The Golden Bowl -- Conclusion: To Be Continued ...
- ISBN
- 0198182708
- 9780198182702
- LCCN
- 94012798
- OCLC
- ocm30595285
- 30595285
- SCSB-14512804
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library