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Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels/ Patricia Meyer Spacks

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990Description: 261 p.: 19 cmISBN:
  • 0226768473
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR858.P53 .S63 1990
Summary: 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 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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