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Expulsion and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Scapegoat in English Realist Fiction
Expulsion and the NineteenthCentury Novel The Scapegoat in English Realist Fiction
Author: Michiel Heyns
This lively and original book examines the notion that the realist novel reinforces existing social structures through its techniques of representation. Michiel Heyns depicts the nineteenth-century literary scapegoat--the ostensible victim of the expulsive pressure of plot--as begetter of an alternative vision, questioning the values apparently ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198182702
ISBN-10: 0198182708
Publication Date: 2/16/1995
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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