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Author Puckett, Kent.

Title Bad form : social mistakes and the nineteenth-century novel / Kent Puckett
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 177 pages) : illustrations
Contents Some blunders -- Embarrassing Bovary -- Looking good: style and Its absence in George Eliot -- Hanging together in Henry James -- Afterword "J'ai envie d'foutre le camp."
Summary With significant new readings of a number of 19th-century works such as Eliot's 'Middlemarch', Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary', and James's 'The Princess Casamassima', Kent Puckett reveals how the novel achieves its coherence thanks to minor mistakes that novels both represent and make
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-171) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 -- Knowledge -- Manners and customs
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- Manners and customs
James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Knowledge -- Manners and customs
SUBJECT Eliot, George, 1819-1880 fast
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 fast
James, Henry, 1843-1916 fast
Subject Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Manners and customs in literature.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Literature and society -- France -- History -- 19th century
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
English fiction
French fiction
Literature and society
Manners and customs
Manners and customs in literature
France
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
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