Screen LibraryThe novel of purpose：literature and social reform in the Anglo-American world
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Cornell University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Ithaca |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 246 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0801444802 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801444807 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | I106 |
| CLC: | I106.4 |
| Call Number: | I106.4/C622 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-236) and index. Social reform and the new transatlanticism -- The novel of purpose and Anglo-American realism -- Charles Dickens : a reformer abroad and at home -- Anne Brontë and Elizabeth Stoddard : temperance pledges, marriage vows -- George Eliot and Henry James : exemplary women and typical Americans -- Mark Twain : reformers and other con artists -- Thomas Hardy : new women, old purposes. |