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The Humanistic Heritage

Critical Theories of the English Novel from James to Hillis Miller

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  • © 1986

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  1. Daniel R. Schwarz

    1. Cornell University, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Daniel R. Schwarz
    Pages 1-15

  3. The Humanistic Heritage of James and Lubbock: the Emergence of an Aesthetic of the Novel

    • Daniel R. Schwarz
    Pages 16-40

  4. The Importance of E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel

    • Daniel R. Schwarz
    Pages 41-59

  5. Privileging Literary Criticism: the Legacy of F. R. Leavis’s The Great Tradition

    • Daniel R. Schwarz
    Pages 60-79

  6. ‘The Idea Embodied in the Cosmology’: the Significance of Dorothy Van Ghent’s The English Novel: Form and Function

    • Daniel R. Schwarz
    Pages 80-98

  7. ‘Formal Realism’: the Importance of Ian Watt’s The Rise of the Novel

    • Daniel R. Schwarz
    Pages 99-117

  8. Two Major Voices of the 1950s: Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism and Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis

    • Daniel R. Schwarz
    Pages 118-150

  9. Reading as a Moral Activity: the Importance of Wayne C. Booth’s The Rhetoric of Fiction

    • Daniel R. Schwarz
    Pages 151-169

  10. The Consolation of Form: the Theoretical and Historical Significance of Frank Kermode’s The Sense of an Ending

    • Daniel R. Schwarz
    Pages 170-186

  11. Marxist Criticism of the English Novel: Arnold Kettle’s An Introduction to the English Novel and Raymond Williams’s The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence

    • Daniel R. Schwarz
    Pages 187-221

  12. The Fictional Theories of J. Hillis Miller: Humanism, Phenomenology, and Deconstruction in The Form of Victorian Fiction and Fiction and Repetition

    • Daniel R. Schwarz
    Pages 222-266

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 267-272
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Cornell University, USA

    Daniel R. Schwarz

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Humanistic Heritage

  • Book Subtitle: Critical Theories of the English Novel from James to Hillis Miller

  • Authors: Daniel R. Schwarz

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08068-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Daniel R. Schwarz 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-08070-0Published: 01 January 1986

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-08068-7Published: 18 June 1986

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 282

  • Topics: Fiction

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