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.
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.
Gage McWeeny is Professor of English at Williams College.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 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
Introduction 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
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