Between Self and Society: Inner Worlds and Outer Limits in the British Psychological Novel

by John Rodden

Book Overview

Between Self and Society explores the psychosocial dramas that galvanize six major British novels written between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The book challenges an influential misconception that has for too long hindered appreciation of the psychological novel. John Rodden argues that there should be no simplifying antithesis between psychological, "inner" conflicts (within the mind or "soul") and institutional, "outer" conflicts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477312234
• ISBN13: 9781477312230
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"