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"An ambitious study, the fruit of sustained work over many years. Professor Carter's book deploys a stunning knowledge of Proust and places Carter among the first line of Proust scholars in the country."-Roger Shattuck,Boston University The Proustian Quest is the first full-length study that explores the influence of social change on Proust's vision. In Remembrance of Things Past, Proust describes how the machines of transportation and communication transformed fashion, social mores, time-space perception, and the understanding of the laws of nature. Concentrating on the motif of speed, Carter establishes the centrality of the modern world to the novel's main themes and produces a far- reaching synthesis that demonstrates the work's profound structural unity.
Speed in literature. --- Social change in literature. --- Proust, Marcel,
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Naturalism in literature --- Social change in literature --- Literature and society
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Social change in literature. --- American literature. --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers)
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Grotesque in literature. --- History in literature. --- Russian literature --- Social change in literature. --- History and criticism.
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The Comfort of Strangers argues for a new understanding of the relation between literary form and the socially dense environments of modernity. In a period of vast population increase in Britain, literary form imagined and licensed new ways of being with, and getting away from, other people. The generically diverse works that McWeeny calls "the literature of social density" illuminate surprising investments in ephemeral communities, anonymity, and social distance in the age of Victorian sympathy. With chapters on Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James, The Comfort of Strangers discovers a species of Victorian sociality not imagined under J.S. Mill's description in On Liberty of society as a crowd impinging upon the individual: one attuned to the relational possibilities offered by the impersonal intimacy of life among those unknown and the power of weak social ties.
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Social change in literature. --- Social change --- South Africa --- Social conditions --- Social change in literature --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution
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Comic books, strips, etc. --- Superheroes in literature. --- Social change in literature. --- Literature and society --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Literature and society. --- Social change in literature. --- Superheroes in literature. --- History and criticism --- Superman, --- Batman, --- Batman, --- Superman, --- United States.
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Reforming the World considers the intricate relationship between social reform and spiritual elevation and the development of fiction in the antebellum United States. Arguing that novels of the era engaged with questions about the proper role of fiction taking place at the time, Maria Carla Sánchez illuminates the politically and socially motivated involvement of men and women in shaping ideas about the role of literature in debates about abolition, moral reform, temperance, and protest work. She concludes that, whereas American Puritans had viewed novels as risqué and grotesque, antebellum re
Literature and society --- Social problems in literature. --- Social change in literature. --- American fiction --- History --- History and criticism.
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The Tigress in the Snow explores how literature reacted to, influenced, and shaped the evolving notion of motherhood in twentieth-century Italy. From the late-nineteenth century rhetorical celebration of the mother as Madonna, to the Fascist regime's demographic campaign and feminist revisions of the maternal role, Laura Benedetti shows how the mother's social status was a site of constant negotiation in Italy during the last century and how this negotiation came to be represented in literature. To illustrate her theme, she stresses both similarities and differences among four generations of women writers, as well as their complex interaction with their male counterparts, and their reactions to changes in Italian society. The Tigress in the Snow highlights literature's role in the formation of cultural discourses right up to the dawn of the twenty-first century. An intriguing look at the changing nature of motherhood in a country that has always valued the maternal institution, this volume goes further to show how literature investigates, shapes, and envisions social models for the present and future.
Italian literature --- Motherhood in literature. --- Mothers in literature. --- Social change in literature. --- Motherhood --- Maternity --- Mothers --- Parenthood --- History and criticism. --- History
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Shows how South African writing can help us to understand change after apartheid. It focuses on changes in the workplace, land reform, indigenous knowledge, xenophobia, corruption and crime, arguing that literary and cultural texts have a unique and powerful capacity for illuminating these issues.
South African literature (English) --- Politics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Social change in literature. --- South Africa --- History --- In literature.
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