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Title:
Empty houses : theatrical failure and the novel
Author:
Kurnick, David, 1972-
ISBN:
9781400840090

9781283290685
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 254 pages)
Abstract:
According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual. Empty Houses challenges this consensus by reexamining the genre's development from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and exploring what has until now seemed an anomaly--the frustrated theatrical ambitions of major novelists. Offering new interpretations of the careers of William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Henry James, James Joyce, and James Baldwin--writers known for mapping ever-narrower interior geographies--this book argues that the genre's inward-
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