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A Probable State (Paperback, 2nd ed.) Loot Price: R981
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A Probable State (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Irene Tucker

A Probable State (Paperback, 2nd ed.)

Irene Tucker

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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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Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2000
First published: November 2000
Authors: Irene Tucker
Dimensions: 228 x 165 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 311
Edition: 2nd ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81535-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies
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LSN: 0-226-81535-8
Barcode: 9780226815350

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