The comfort of strangers : social life and literary form /
McWeeny, Gage,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the comfort of strangers -- Matthew Arnold's crowd management -- Losing interest in George Eliot -- Oscar Wilde's ephemeral form -- Henry James's art of distance -- Afterword.
English literature
Social change in literature.
Strangers in literature.
Community life in literature.
Social psychology in literature.
Literature and society