Experimental Impulse in George Meredith's Fiction FROM THE PUBLISHER
This book argues that George Meredith as a writer of Victorian fiction is most interesting and important for us today in the ways in which he wrote against convention. The focus is on those novels that most clearly illuminate the experimental and transgressive impulse in Meredith, as seen in his treatment of controversial contemporary themes, in his departures from conventions of genre, and in his innovations with narrative technique and the representation of consciousness.
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As a writer of Victorian fiction, Meredith (1828-1909) is important and interesting today for how he wrote against or beyond the novelistic tradition and that compendium of attitudes and values we associate with Victorian culture, declares Stevenson (English, U. of Oregon). He focuses on those novels that most clearly demonstrate the author's experimental and transgressive impulse, as expressed in his treatment of controversial contemporary themes and his representation of consciousness. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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