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Many of these highly regarded works sold in large numbers and have enjoyed enduring success – a testament to the power of the political novel to explain a nation to itself. Perkin explores the connections between the novel and politics, situating the works it discusses in the rich context of the history and culture of the decade, from party politics to popular television shows.  Politics and the British Novel in the 1970s elucidates a period of literary history now fifty years in the past and offers a balanced perspective on the age, revealing that these works not only represented the politics of the time but played a meaningful role in them.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49739492065553,"sku":"NGR9780228006244","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0228006244.jpg?v=1778752554"},{"product_id":"reception-history-of-george-eliot-s-fiction-book-j-russell-perkin-9781580463775","title":"A Reception-History of George Eliot's Fiction","description":"A survey of the critical reception of George Eliot's fiction in Victorian periodicals.  First published in 1990, this paperback reintroduces a major contribution to our understanding of George Eliot's fiction, in which the author explores the different critical paradigms that have shaped the remarkably varied reception that Eliot's fiction has received. Basing his study on contemporary theories of literary criticism, with particular reference to the work of Jauss, Perkin provides important insights not only into the novels of George Eliot, but also into current critical debates about literary history.      The book begins by offering extended and perceptive discussions of the Victorian reviews of Adam Bede and Daniel Deronda, before examining the critical opinions of Henry James. The author then turns to more recent critics, in particular Virginia Woolf, F.R. Leavis, Barbara Hardy and J. Hillis Miller, and includes Marxist and feminist accounts of Eliot; there is also an in-depth and challenging reappraisal of Eliot's most underrated novel Felix Holt, the Radical.   J. Russell Perkin teaches English at St Mary's University in Halifax, Novia Scotia, Canada.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52454810976529,"sku":"NLS9781580463775","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53531562377489,"sku":"NIN9781580463775","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781580463775.jpg?v=1759372305"},{"product_id":"david-lodge-and-the-tradition-of-the-modern-novel-book-j-russell-perkin-9780773543201","title":"David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel","description":"David Lodge is a much-loved novelist and influential literary critic. Examining his career from his earliest publications in the late 1950s to his more recent works, David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel identifies Lodge's central place within the canon of twentieth-century British literature. J. Russell Perkin argues that liberalism is the defining feature of Lodge's identity as a novelist, critic, and Roman Catholic intellectual, and demonstrates that Graham Greene, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis, Henry James, and H.G. Wells are the key influences on Lodge's fiction. Perkin also considers Lodge's relationship to contemporary British novelists, including Hilary Mantel, Julian Barnes, and Monica Ali. In a study that is both theoretically informed and accessible to the general reader, Perkin shows that Lodge's work is shaped by the dialectic of modernism and the realist tradition. Through an approach that draws on diverse theories of literary influence and history, David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel provides the most thorough treatment of the novelist's career to date.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53552065610001,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53552066134289,"sku":"NIN9780773543201","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780773543201.jpg?v=1778648070"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-j-russell-perkin.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}