The Experimental Impulse in George Meredith's Fiction
As a writer of Victorian fiction, Meredith (1828-1909) is important and interesting today for how he wrote against or beyond the novelistic tradition and that compendium of attitudes and values we associate with Victorian culture, declares Stevenson (English, U. of Oregon). He focuses on those novels that most clearly demonstrate the author's experimental and transgressive impulse, as expressed in his treatment of controversial contemporary themes and his representation of consciousness. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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The Experimental Impulse in George Meredith's Fiction
As a writer of Victorian fiction, Meredith (1828-1909) is important and interesting today for how he wrote against or beyond the novelistic tradition and that compendium of attitudes and values we associate with Victorian culture, declares Stevenson (English, U. of Oregon). He focuses on those novels that most clearly demonstrate the author's experimental and transgressive impulse, as expressed in his treatment of controversial contemporary themes and his representation of consciousness. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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The Experimental Impulse in George Meredith's Fiction

The Experimental Impulse in George Meredith's Fiction

by Richard C. Stevenson
The Experimental Impulse in George Meredith's Fiction
The Experimental Impulse in George Meredith's Fiction

The Experimental Impulse in George Meredith's Fiction

by Richard C. Stevenson

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As a writer of Victorian fiction, Meredith (1828-1909) is important and interesting today for how he wrote against or beyond the novelistic tradition and that compendium of attitudes and values we associate with Victorian culture, declares Stevenson (English, U. of Oregon). He focuses on those novels that most clearly demonstrate the author's experimental and transgressive impulse, as expressed in his treatment of controversial contemporary themes and his representation of consciousness. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780838758830
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Publication date: 10/01/2004
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 332 KB

About the Author

Richard Stevenson is Professor of English at the University of Oregon, where he teaches courses in the British novel.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments9
Introduction13
1An Essay on Comedy: Theorizing Tradition and Innovation24
2The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: Challenges to Patriarchy and the Boundaries of Genre38
3The Adventures of Harry Richmond and the Disintegration of Identity63
4The Egoist: The Female Hero as Agent of Exposure87
5One of Our Conquerors: The Anatomy of a Marriage117
6Lord Ormont and His Aminta: Escape from Patriarchy and the Problem of Narrative Dissonance148
7The Amazing Marriage and the Construction of Feminine Identity167
Conclusion: George Meredith in the Twentieth Century and After189
Notes203
Bibliography225
Index234
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