Gossip and subversion in nineteenth-century British fiction : echo's economies /
Jan Gordon rewrites the history of nineteenth-century British fiction by disclosing a liberatory 'information superhighway' in the presence of gossip and its practitioners. He begins by suggesting the simultaneous dependence upon the repression of uncorroborated eye-witness testimony in th...
| Основен автор: | Gordon, Jan B., 1941- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
St. Martin's Press,
1996.
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Publisher description Table of contents |
| Резюме: |
Jan Gordon rewrites the history of nineteenth-century British fiction by disclosing a liberatory 'information superhighway' in the presence of gossip and its practitioners. He begins by suggesting the simultaneous dependence upon the repression of uncorroborated eye-witness testimony in the 'pre-novels' of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The attempt to create paradigmatic 'plots' of Christian redemption forced more fabulizing theologically-unstructured 'plots' to the margins. In Gordon's model, the evolution of the nineteenth-century novel marks the attempt of an orality persecuted by a patriarchal Republic of Letters - or its later successor a moralizing Great Tradition - to gain a proper discursive share. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
xiv, 444 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 382-424) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0333607821 (cloth) 9780333607824 (cloth) 0312161654 (cloth) 9780312161651 (cloth) |