Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel

by Kent Puckett

Book Overview

What--other than embarrassment--could one hope to gain from prolonged exposure to the social mistake? Why think much about what many would like simply to forget? In Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Kent Puckett argues that whatever its awkwardness, the social mistake-the blunder, the gaffe, the faux pas-is a figure of critical importance to the nineteenth-century novel. While offering significant new readings of Thackeray,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199948534
• ISBN13: 9780199948536
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"