| Description |
xvii, 261 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Subjectivity and interpretation Theories of reading: an end to interpretation? -- Response, intention, and motives for interpretation -- pt. 2. Self-discovery and literary understanding Stories of reading: Wuthering Heights -- Reading Esther Summerson: reception, response, gender -- Response and evasion in reading The wind in the willows -- Alice as self and other(s) -- pt. 3. Limits of signification David Copperfield's plots against the reader -- The intentional phallus in Dickens and Hardy -- Making Mansfield Park feel right -- pt. 4. Literary influence and the reader's understanding Sexual realism and phantasy in Hardy and Lawrence -- Coming to terms with Outside over there |
| Analysis |
Fiction in English, 1837-1945 - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 239-248 |
| Subject |
English fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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English fiction -- History and criticism.
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Reader-response criticism.
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| LC no. |
88022599 |
| ISBN |
0801837235 |
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