The Comfort of Strangers Social Life and Literary Form |
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Author:
| McWeeny, Gage |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-088742-1 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2018 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $38.99 |
Book Description:
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The Comfort of Strangers argues for a new understanding of the relation between literary form and the socially dense environments of modernity. In a period of vast population increase in Britain, literary form imagined and licensed new ways of being with, and getting away from, other people.
The Comfort of Strangers argues for a new understanding of the relation between literary form and the socially dense environments of modernity. In a period of vast population increase in Britain, literary form imagined and licensed new ways of being with, and getting away from, other people.