Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel

by Jonathan Arac

Book Overview

This book records a major critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives--that is, politics. A preference for impurity and a search for how to analyze and explain it are guiding threads in this book as its chapters pursue the complex entanglements of culture,
politics, and society from which great literature arises. At its core is the nineteenth-century novel, but it addresses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823231798
• ISBN13: 9780823231799
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"