Desire and Truth by Patricia Meyer Spacks
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.Patricia Meyer Spacks, Ph.D. Patricia Meyer Spacks, Ph.D. Patricia Meyer Spacks, Ph Edgar F. Berkeley is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Shannon is an English professor at the University of Virginia. An Argument of Images: Alexander Pope's Poetry; The Feminine Imagination; The Adolescent Idea: Myths of Childhood and the Adult Imagination; Desire and Truth: Plot Functions in Eighteenth-Century English Novels; and Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind are among her writings.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226768472 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226768473 |
| Title | Desire and Truth |
| Author | Patricia Meyer Spacks |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 1994-03-20 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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