num_pages: 304
description: This lively and original book examines the notion that the realist novel reinforces existing social structures through its techniques of representation. Michiel Heyns depicts the nineteenth-century literary scapegoat--the ostensible victim of the expulsive pressure of plot--as begetter of an alternative vision, questioning the values apparently upheld by the novel as a whole. Expulsion and the Nineteenth-Century Novel investigates this idea through close and illuminating readings of five realist novels of the nineteenth Mansfield Park , Our Mutual Friend , Daniel Deronda , Lord Jim , and The Golden Bowl . This book places the realist novel in the center of current debates, while yet respecting the power of literature to anticipate the insights of its critics.
language: English
title: Expulsion and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Scapegoat in English Realist Fiction
titlecomplete: Expulsion and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Scapegoat in English Realist Fiction
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Clarendon Press