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A Probable State - The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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A Probable State - The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Why has the realist novel been persistently understood as promoting
liberalism? Can this tendency be reconciled with an equally
familiar tendency to see the novel as a national form? In "A
Probable State," Irene Tucker builds a revisionary argument about
liberalism and the realist novel by shifting the focus from the
rise of both in the eighteenth century to their breakdown at the
end of the nineteenth. Through a series of intricate and absorbing
readings, Tucker relates the decline of realism and the eroding
logic of liberalism to the question of Jewish characters and
writers and to shifting ideas of community and nation.
Whereas previous critics have explored the relationship between
liberalism and the novel by studying the novel's liberal
characters, Tucker argues that the liberal subject is represented
not merely within the novel, but in the experience of the novel's
form as well. With special attention to George Eliot, Henry James,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, and S. Y. Abramovitch, Tucker shows how we
can understand liberalism and the novel as modes of recognizing and
negotiating with history.
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