TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spacks,Patricia Meyer
TI  - Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels
SN  - 0226768473
AV  - PR858.P53 .S63 1990
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - English novels
N2  - 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
ER  -