Title Expulsion and the Nineteenth-century novel : the scapegoat in English realist fiction / Michiel Heyns

Published Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (x, 293 pages) Contents Introduction: Complicity, Community, and Critical Method -- Ch. 1. A Divided Community: Fanny Price and the Readers of Mansfield Park -- Ch. 2. 'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love . . .': Privileged Partnership in Dickens -- Ch. 3. A Peculiar Compassion: George Eliot and Gwendolen Harleth -- Ch. 4. The Solidarity of the Craft and the Fellowship of Illusion: Lord Jim -- Ch. 5. A Community of Interest: The Golden Bowl -- Conclusion: To Be Continued .. Summary Places the realist novel in the centre of current debates by examining the notion that such novels reinforced existing social structures. Heyns's readings depict the 19th-century literary scapegoat as begetter of an alternative vision which questioned the values upheld by the novel as a whole Analysis English fiction Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-284) and index Notes Print version record Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Scapegoat in literature. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Realism in literature. English fiction Literature and society Realism in literature Scapegoat in literature Zondebokken. Fictie. Engels. Mansfield park (Austen) Daniel Deronda (Eliot) The golden bowl (James) Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191673870 0191673870

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