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Patricia McKee demonstrates that Richardson, Eliot, and James see disorderliness and indeterminacy in the human self, human relations, and literature as primary sources of meaningfulness. The relationships these novels portray as most satisfying are unsettled and unsettling, interfering with rather than contributing to social stability. Originally

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Examining the emergent and fluctuating relationship between the public and private social spheres of the late 18th and 19th centuries, this text assesses novels such as Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and Jane Austen's "Emma" through the lens of the social theories of Habermas and Foucault.