Fiction and the Ways of Knowing : : Essays on British Novels / / Avrom Fleishman.

In this highly individual study, Avrom Fleishman explores a wide range of literary references to human culture—the culture of ideas, facts, and images. Each critical essay in Fiction and the Ways of Knowing takes up for sustained analysis a major British novel of the nineteenth or the twentieth cent...

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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1978
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Fiction and the Ways of Knowing
  • 1. Introduction: Fiction as Supplement
  • 2. The Socialization of Catherine Morland
  • 3. Wuthering Heights: The Love of a Sylph and a Gnome
  • 4. A Napoleon of Heroines: Historical Myth in Vanity Fair
  • 5. Master and Servant in Little Dorrit
  • 6. The Wanderings of Melmotte
  • 7. "Daniel Charisi"
  • 8. The Buried Giant of Egdon Heath
  • 9- Speech and Writing in Under Western Eyes
  • 10. Science in "Ithaca"
  • 11. Being and Nothing in A Passage to India
  • 12. Woolf and McTaggart
  • 13. The Magus of the Wizard of the West
  • Postscript
  • Notes