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The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World
Ist Teil von
Victorian Studies, 2008, Vol.50 (2), p.353-355
Ort / Verlag
Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Claybaugh claims that this category "recovers something crucial about the selfunderstanding of nineteenth-century novelists," but surely critics have never lost sight of the fact that novelists and reviewers frequently "thought of novels not as self-contained aesthetic objects but rather as active interventions into social and political life" (36). The chapter on Brontë and Stoddard, for example, provides an insightful analysis of the ways that some of the basic plots developed by women's temperance fiction served to "license and organize the depiction of experiences that had so far been excluded from the novel: the repetitive sequence of days that makes up a marriage in Brontë; the desires that occur outside of marriage in Stoddard" (99).