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Author:

Nandrea, Lorri G., author.

Title:

Misfit forms : paths not taken by the British novel / Lorri G. Nandrea.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Fordham University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

x, 272 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Sensitivity (Personality trait) in literature.
Sympathy in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: the novel, education, and experience -- Typing feeling: sympathy, sensibility, and sentimentality -- The science of the sensible: from Sterne to Charlotte Bront©± -- Sense in the middle: teleological vs. cumulative plotting -- Verisimilitudes: curiosity, wonder, and negative capability -- Conclusion: Woolf's Fin.

ISBN:

0823263436
9780823263431

OCLC:

(OCoLC)891427625

LCCN:

2014030498

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)