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Part I. Politics and the canon. The impact of Shakespeare: Goethe to Melville; The media of sublimity: Johnson and Lamb on King Lear; Hamlet, Little Dorrit, and the history of character; The struggle for the cultural heritage: Christina Stead refunctions Charles Dickens and Mark Twain; The birth of Huck's nation

Part II. Language and reality in the age of the novel. Narrative form and social sense in Bleak house and the French Revolution; Rhetoric and realism: hyperbole in The mill on the floss; Rhetoric and realism; or, Marxism, deconstruction, and Madame Bovary; Baudelaire's impure transfers: allegory, translation, prostitution, correspondence; Huckleberry Finn without polemic.

Fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.

Politics and literature > History > 19th century.

Literature and society > History > 19th century.