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Novel Characters
Maria Dibattista
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Description for Novel Characters
The anxiety and the curiosity Jane Austen s narrator expresses for her favorite heroine is an anxiety and curiosity all true novels feel for their characters, however well, or however little loved they might be. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
Novel Characters offers a fascinating and in-depth history of the novelistic character from the “birth of the novel” in Don Quixote, through the great canonical works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the most influential international novels of the present day
Novel Characters offers a fascinating and in-depth history of the novelistic character from the “birth of the novel” in Don Quixote, through the great canonical works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the most influential international novels of the present day
- An original study which offers a unique approach to thinking about and discussing character
- Makes extensive reference to both traditional and more recent and specialized academic studies of the novel
- Provides a critical vocabulary for understanding how the novelistic conception of character has changed over time.
- Examines a broad range of novels, cultures, and periods
- Promotes discussion of how different cultures ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405159517
SKU
V9781405159517
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99-15
About Maria Dibattista
Maria DiBattista is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University; she has written extensively on modern literature, popular and pulp fiction, and film. Her books include First Love: The Affections of Modern Fiction (1991), Fast Talking Dames (2001), and Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography (2009).
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