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The novel of purpose : literature and social reform in the Anglo-American world /Amanda Claybaugh

By: Amanda ClaybaughContributor(s): Amanda ClaybaughMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: Technical Bureau Private Limited | ;E-261,Shastri Nagar,Delhi-110052Publication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2007Description: xi, 246 pages ;22 cmISBN: 9780801444807Subject(s): literatureGenre/Form: American fictionDDC classification: 823.0093 CLA

Contents:

Social reform and the new transatlanticism -- The novel of purpose and Anglo-American realism -- Charles Dickens : a reformer abroad and at home -- Anne Brontë and Elizabeth Stoddard : temperance pledges, marriage vows -- George Eliot and Henry James : exemplary women and typical Americans -- Mark Twain : reformers and other con artists -- Thomas Hardy : new women, old purposes.

Summary: In the nineteenth century, Great Britain and the United States shared a single literary marketplace that linked the reform movements, as well as the literatures, of the two nations. The writings of transatlantic reformers-antislavery, temperance

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Social reform and the new transatlanticism --
The novel of purpose and Anglo-American realism --
Charles Dickens : a reformer abroad and at home --
Anne Brontë and Elizabeth Stoddard : temperance pledges, marriage vows --
George Eliot and Henry James : exemplary women and typical Americans --
Mark Twain : reformers and other con artists --
Thomas Hardy : new women, old purposes.

In the nineteenth century, Great Britain and the United States shared a single literary marketplace that linked the reform movements, as well as the literatures, of the two nations. The writings of transatlantic reformers-antislavery, temperance

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