Title The comfort of strangers : social life and literary form / Gage McWeeny

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents The Comfort of Strangers; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Comfort of Strangers; 1. Matthew Arnold's Crowd Management; 2. Losing Interest in George Eliot; 3. Oscar Wilde's Ephemeral Form; 4. Henry James and the Art of Distance; Afterword: All Ordinary Life; Notes; Index Summary This text argues for a new understanding of the relation between nineteenth-century realist literary form and the socially dense environments of modernity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Social change in literature. Strangers in literature. Community life in literature. Social psychology in literature. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Noncitizens in literature. Outsiders in literature. Communities in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Outsiders in literature Noncitizens in literature Communities in literature Community life in literature English literature Literature and society Social change in literature Social psychology in literature Strangers in literature Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780199797288 0199797285 9780190461188 0190461187

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