The novel of purpose : literature and social reform in the Anglo-American world / Amanda Claybaugh.

"The Novel of Purpose proposes a new way of understanding social reform in Great Britain and the United States. Amanda Clayburgh offers readings that connect reformist agitation to the formal features of literary works and argues for a method of transatlantic study that attends not only to nati...

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Main Author: Claybaugh, Amanda.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
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