Meredith and the novel

Meredith and the novel

by Roberts, Neil

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Neil Roberts' book, the first full-length study of Meredith's work for ten years, and the first to approach the novels in the light of modern literary theory, examines them from a Bakhtinian perspective, and shows with reference to numerous contemporary texts - artistic, polemical and personal - that the Meredithian novel is, in Bakhtin's words, a 'social dialogue among languages' that engages profoundly with the ideological discourses of its time, above all the discourses of gender. Meredith e…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Meredith and the novel / Neil Roberts.

Summary

Neil Roberts' book, the first full-length study of Meredith's work for ten years, and the first to approach the novels in the light of modern literary theory, examines them from a Bakhtinian perspective, and shows with reference to numerous contemporary texts - artistic, polemical and personal - that the Meredithian novel is, in Bakhtin's words, a 'social dialogue among languages' that engages profoundly with the ideological discourses of its time, above all the discourses of gender. Meredith emerges as one of the most intriguingly subtle radical voices of the age, and a still not fully-discovered precursor of the modernist novel.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1997.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):St. Martin's Press
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1997.

The Physical Object

  • Description:viii, 286 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0312165358, 9780312165352, 0333675940, 9780333675946
  • oclc:ocm35192246
  • LC Classification:PR5014
  • Dewey Decimal:823/.8

Table of Contents

1. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel -- 2. The Novels of the 1860s -- 3. The Adventures of Harry Richmond -- 4. Beauchamp's Career -- 5. The Egoist -- 6. The Tragic Comedians -- 7. Diana of the Crossways -- 8. The Final Phase.

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Fiction -- Authorship Meredith, George Roman -- Art d'écrire Romans

Writers

Roberts, Neil

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