| Description |
xvii, 373 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The fictional contract -- Relevance and the emergence of form -- The other self: problems of character -- Austen: manners and morals -- Stendhal: irony and freedom -- Dickens: selves and systems -- Eliot: the nature of decision -- Tolstoy and the forms of life -- James: the logic of intensity -- Conrad: the limits of irony -- Lawrence: levels of consciousness -- Forster: inclusion and exclusion -- The beauty of mortal conditions: Joyce, Woolf, Mann |
| Analysis |
Fiction in European languages 1800-1945 Forms Novels Characters |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Characters and characteristics in literature.
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Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Literature and morals.
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| LC no. |
82016064 |
| ISBN |
0300028679 |
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