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Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels

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Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels - Spacks, Patricia Meyer
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Desire and Truth offers a major reassessment of the history of eighteenth-century fiction by showing how plot challenges or reinforces conventional categories of passion and rationality. Arguing that fiction creates and conveys its essential truths through plot, Patricia Meyer Spacks demonstrates that eighteenth-century fiction is both profoundly realistic and consistently daring.

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Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels 1994, University of Chicago Press

ISBN-13: 9780226768472

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Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels 1990, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226768458

Hardcover