Romancing the Novel
Margaret Bruzelius
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hardcover. Romancing the Novel examines the ways in which romance forms the characteristic "boys' books"--as exemplified in the novels of Scott, Dumas, Verne, and Stephenson--influence narratives not generally put in the same category, both in psychoanalytic accounts of the psyche and in novels by George Eliot, Ursula Le Guin, Joseph Conrad, and W.G. Sebald. Num Pages: 285 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
Romancing the Novel examines the ways in which romance forms the characteristic "boys' books" - as exemplified in the novels of Scott, Dumas, Verne, and Stephenson - influence narratives not generally put in the same category - both in psychoanalytic accounts of the psyche and in novels by George Eliot, Ursula Le Guin, Joseph Conrad, and W.G. Sebald. Adventure privileges masculinity but also reveals an extraordinary ambivalence toward it, since the truly seductive masculine figures in such fictions are always finally exiled from the center of the social consensus. Moreover, the use of the romantic plot creates narrative distortions and ... Read more
Romancing the Novel examines the ways in which romance forms the characteristic "boys' books" - as exemplified in the novels of Scott, Dumas, Verne, and Stephenson - influence narratives not generally put in the same category - both in psychoanalytic accounts of the psyche and in novels by George Eliot, Ursula Le Guin, Joseph Conrad, and W.G. Sebald. Adventure privileges masculinity but also reveals an extraordinary ambivalence toward it, since the truly seductive masculine figures in such fictions are always finally exiled from the center of the social consensus. Moreover, the use of the romantic plot creates narrative distortions and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482522
SKU
V9781611482522
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About Margaret Bruzelius
Margaret Bruzelius is a lecturer in comparative literature at Smith College.
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