Desire and truth : functions of plot in eighteenth-century English novels

Author(s)

• Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer

Bibliographic Information

Desire and truth : functions of plot in eighteenth-century English novels

Patricia Meyer Spacks

University of Chicago Press, 1990

• : alk. paper

Note

Bibliography: p. 245-254

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Desire and Truth offers a major reassessment of the history of eighteenth-century fiction by showing how plot challenges or reinforces conventional categories of passion and rationality. Arguing that fiction creates and conveys its essential truths through plot, Patricia Meyer Spacks demonstrates that eighteenth-century fiction is both profoundly realistic and consistently daring.

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Details

• NCID: BA10425076
• ISBN:
  • 0226768457
• LCCN: 89027725
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: 262 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR858.P53
  • DC20 : 823/.50924
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English fiction -- 18th century -- Stories, plots, etc
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Psychoanalysis and literature
  • LCSH : Sentimentalism in literature
  • LCSH : Desire in literature
  • LCSH : Sex in literature