Expulsion and the Nineteenth-century novel : the scapegoat in English realist fiction /
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.
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Oxford [England] : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1994.
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Table of 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 ...