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Author:

Armstrong, Nancy, 1938-

Title:

How novels think : the limits of British individualism from 1719-1900 / Nancy Armstrong.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

x, 191 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Individualism in literature.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century.
English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
Didactic fiction, English--History and criticism.
Ethics in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-186) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: How novels think -- How the misfit became a moral protagonist -- When novels made nations -- Why a good man is hard to find in Victorian fiction -- The polygenetic imagination -- The necessary gothic.

ISBN:

9780231503877 (e-book)
0231503873 (e-book)
9780231130592 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0231130597 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780231130585 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231130589 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005053782

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)