"What - other than embarrassment - could one hope to gain from prolonged exposure to the social mistake? Why think much about what many would like simply to forget? Bad Form argues that whatever its awkwardness, the social mistake - the blunder, the gaffe, the faux pas - is a fi…
"What - other than embarrassment - could one hope to gain from prolonged exposure to the social mistake? Why think much about what many would like simply to forget? Bad Form argues that whatever its awkwardness, the social mistake - the blunder, the gaffe, the faux pas - is a fi…
"What - other than embarrassment - could one hope to gain from prolonged exposure to the social mistake? Why think much about what many would like simply to forget? Bad Form argues that whatever its awkwardness, the social mistake - the blunder, the gaffe, the faux pas - is a fi…
With significant new readings of a number of 19th-century works such as Eliot's 'Middlemarch', Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary', and James's 'The Princess Casamassima', Kent Puckett reveals how the novel achieves its coherence thanks to minor mistakes that novels both represent and ma…
