Peter Smith

Public and Private Value

Studies in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

A challenge to the inherited nineteenth-century suspicion that the historical novel was a 'costume' affair suited to only minor talents.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780521128759
• ISBN-10: 0521128757
• Artikelnr.: 28174347

Autorenporträt

Pete Smith is a Canadian poet born in Coventry but resident in Kamloops, BC, since 1974. In the UK and Canada he worked as a psychiatric nurse with intellectually challenged people in institutional and community settings. His poems, reviews and essays have been published widely in the UK, the USA and Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction to the turn of a century
2. Little Dorrit: new values for old terms
3. L'Education sentimentale: history as an allegory of love
4. Bouvard et Pecuchet: privacy revisited
5. The Princess Casamassima: James' address to the public
6. The Ambassadors: the history of morality and beauty
7. Nostromo: a tale of Europe
8. The synthesis breaks down: remarks in conclusion
Notes
Index.