Fiction as Knowledge: Modern Post-Romantic Novel

by John McCormick

Book Overview

Critics of fiction have long been aware that the romantic movement in Europe and America gave a powerful impulse to the art of fiction. The exact nature of that impulse has resisted analysis like so much associated with romanticism. In Fiction as Knowledge John McCormick reaches for precision, proposing that much of the vitality of modern fiction derives from romantic conceptions of history which made available to fiction not merely historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765804808
• ISBN13: 9780765804808
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"