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How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900
Nancy Armstrong
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Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting the social order to grant the exceptional person a place commensurate with his or her individual worth. Once the novel had created this figure, readers understood themselves in terms of a narrative that produced a self-governing subject. In the decades following the revolutions in British North America and France, the major novelists distinguished themselves as authors by ... Read more
Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting the social order to grant the exceptional person a place commensurate with his or her individual worth. Once the novel had created this figure, readers understood themselves in terms of a narrative that produced a self-governing subject. In the decades following the revolutions in British North America and France, the major novelists distinguished themselves as authors by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231130592
SKU
V9780231130592
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About Nancy Armstrong
Nancy Armstrong is chair of the English department and Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture and Media, and Gender Studies at Brown University. She is the author of several books including, Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism and Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel.
Reviews for How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900
This volume showcases Armstrong's wide critical imagination and ability... Essential. Choice A compelling and thought-provoking book.
Miranda El-Rayess Times Literary Supplement
Miranda El-Rayess Times Literary Supplement