Excellence of Falsehood

by Deborah Ross

"The only excellence of falsehood... is its resemblance to truth," proclaims a clergyman in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote . He argues that romances are bad art; novels, he implies, are better. This clergyman's remarks -- repeating what literary and moral authorities had been saying since the late seventeenth century -- are central to Deborah Ross's discussion of romance characteristics in English women's novels. Aphra Behn, Delariviere Manley,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081311764X
• ISBN13: 9780813117645
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher