Economies of change : form and transformation in the nineteenth-century novel

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Economies of change : form and transformation in the nineteenth-century novel

Michal Peled Ginsburg

Stanford University Press, 1996

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Bibliography: p. [243]-248

Includes index

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This book argues against the tendency of much of literary studies today to mistake the critique of formalism for a license to disregard form altogether. In detailed readings of ten novels (by Balzac, Stendhal, Austen, Dickens, and James), the author shows how novelists, in their practice of novelistic representation, deal with certain cultural issues, social values, and ideological purposes through the particular combination and manipulation of a set of formal possibilities. The analysis of each novel centers around the notion of transformation-or the "economy of change"-as it informs the text and our understanding of it, arguing that transformation is not only a basic category of narrative structure but also the key to the link between literary form and cultural context. The readings foreground the different ways transformation operates in narrative texts: as a category of plot, as what underlies the production of meaning or knowledge in the text, and as what constitutes the text as representation. The discussion of each novel begins by reviewing certain dominant interpretations and then proceeds to offer alternative readings, challenging the logic that underlies those interpretations and complicating common ways of categorizing novels.

目次

  • A note to the reader
  • Introduction
  • 1. Reading temporality in La Peau de chagrin
  • 2. Escaping death: the gendered economy of Le Lys dans la vallee
  • 3. Beyond oppositions, the limit: Stenhal's Abbesse de Castro
  • 4. The prison house of Parma
  • 5. Mansfield Park: representing proper distinctions
  • 6. Staying at home with Emma Woodhouse
  • 7. The case against plot in Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend
  • 8. Mortgaging freedom: the aesthetic and its limit in The Princess Casamassima
  • 9. The Awkward Age: modern consciousness and the sense of the past
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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