Meredith and the Novel |
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| Author:
| Roberts, Neil |
| ISBN: | 978-1-349-25464-4 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1997 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $179.00 |
Book Description:
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Meredith is a novelist whom many readers have discovered with excitement, drawn to his radical portrayal of social and personal relations, especially of gender. Neil Robert's book is the first full-length study for ten years, and is the first to examine the novels in the light of modern literary theory, especially the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, showing that Meredith is a writer who engages profoundly with the ideological discourses of his time and is a still not fully discovered...
More DescriptionMeredith is a novelist whom many readers have discovered with excitement, drawn to his radical portrayal of social and personal relations, especially of gender. Neil Robert's book is the first full-length study for ten years, and is the first to examine the novels in the light of modern literary theory, especially the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, showing that Meredith is a writer who engages profoundly with the ideological discourses of his time and is a still not fully discovered precursor of the modernist novel.