Realism | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 30 pages of analysis & critique of Realism.

Realism | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 30 pages of analysis & critique of Realism.
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SOURCE: "Licensing Pleasure: Literary History and the Novel in Early Modern Britain," in The Columbia History of the British Novel, edited by John Richetti, Columbia University Press, 1994, pp. 1-22.

In this essay, Warner discusses social and critical attitudes toward the novel during the decades of its development.

Gi; the Scandal of Novel Reading =~ Sthe Scandal of Novel Reading

Novels have been a respectable component of culture for so long that it is difficult for twentieth-century observers to grasp the unease produced by novel reading in the eighteenth century. Long before it became an issue for debate in literary studies, a quantum leap in the number, variety, and popularity of novels provoked cultural alarm in England during the decades following 1700. The flood of novels on the market, and the pleasures they incited, led many to see novels as a catastrophe for book-centered culture. While the novel was not clearly...

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