| Description |
1 online resource (x, 254 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Interiority and Its Discontents; One: Acoustics in the Thackeray Theater; Two: George Eliot's Lot; Three: Henry James's Awkward Stage; Four: Joyce Unperformed; Epilogue: In the Kingdom of Whomever: Baldwin's Method; Notes; Index. |
| Summary |
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- |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Fiction -- Technique -- History.
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Fiction -- Technique. |
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History. |
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Drama -- Technique -- History.
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Drama -- Technique. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kurnick, David, 1972- Empty houses. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2011 9780691151519 (DLC) 2011014630 (OCoLC)713834609 |
| ISBN |
9781400840090 (electronic book) |
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1400840090 (electronic book) |
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1283290685 |
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9781283290685 |
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9780691151519 |
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0691151512 |
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9780691153162 |
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0691153167 |
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