Transforming Genres
Subtitle: New Approaches to British Fiction of the 1890s
Contributors: Nikki Lee Manos (Editor); Meri-Jane Rochelson (Editor)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: October 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780312121549
Subjects: 19th Century English Novel And Short Story; 19th century; English fiction; History; History and criticism; Literary form; Theory, etc
First sentence: As Jean Howard and Marion O'Connor argue in their introduction to Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology, "probably more than any other figure in western culture," Shakespeare has functioned "as a kind of cultural Esperanto, a medium through which the differences of material existence-differences of race, gender, class, history, and culture-are supposedly canceled.