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Getting lost in the novel : strategic confusion in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction /

"Focusing on the psychological needs that drew readers in the past - and that still draw readers today - to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels, Amanda Auerbach reveals the conditions within readers' lives that led them to find books by authors such as Jane Austen and George Eliot so...

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Main Author:	Auerbach, Amanda (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Subjects:	English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism. Characters and characteristics in literature. Books and reading > Psychological aspects. Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique. Roman anglais > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique. Livres et lecture > Aspect psychologique. English fiction > History and criticism. 1700-1799 1800-1899 Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.

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