Reverse Tradition: Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth Century Novel

by Robert Kiely

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Reverse Tradition invites the reader of postmodern fiction to travel back to the nineteenth-century novel without pretending to let go of contemporary anxieties and expectations. What happens to the reader of Beckett when he or she returns to Melville? Or to the enthusiast of Toni Morrison who rereads Charlotte Bronte? While Robert Kiely does not claim that all fictions begin to look alike, he finds unexpected and illuminating pleasures...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674767039

ISBN13:9780674767034

Release Date:January 1993

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.34 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"

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