Gage Mcweeny

The Comfort of Strangers

Social Life and Literary Form

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Produktbeschreibung

The Comfort of Strangers argues for a new understanding of the relation between literary form and the socially dense environments of modernity. In a period of vast population increase in Britain, literary form imagined and licensed new ways of being with, and getting away from, other people.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780199797202
• ISBN-10: 019979720X
• Artikelnr.: 47867065

Autorenporträt

Gage McWeeny is Associate Professor of English at Williams College.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction: The Comfort of Strangers
Chapter 1: Matthew Arnold's Crowd Management
Chapter 2: Losing Interest in George Eliot
Chapter 3: Oscar Wilde's Ephemeral Form
Chapter 4: Henry James's Art of Distance
Afterword
Notes
Index