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The Value of

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

The Value of

By Peter Boxall

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Peter Boxall's The Value of the Novel offers a reappraisal of the ethical, political and literary value of the novel as a genre at turning point in the history both of literature and of criticism. As the dominant critical concerns of the twentieth century faded, and new cultural and technological environments emerged, Boxall argues that we lost our collective sense of the purpose of the novel. This book responds to this predicament by demonstrating why and how the novel matters to us today. Rang...Show more

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9781107057494

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Cambridge University Press

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2015

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