Society in the Novel

by Elizabeth Langland

Book Overview

The distinctive and varied formal roles that a fictional society might play in a novel is the subject of this pioneering work. Langland opens with a discussion of novel theory, placing her perspectives within contemporary theory, and follows with a discussion of novels from the British, American, and Continental traditions from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. She also raises questions about society in the novel as an expression...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807816043
• ISBN13: 9780807816042
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"