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The Readable People of George Meredith
(Hardback)
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
The Readable People of George Meredith
Contributors:
By (Author) Judith Wilt
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Dewey:
823.8
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
264
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
539g
Description
Meredith's reputation as an "unreadable" novelist prompted Judith Wilt to examine the relationship between author and reader in Meredith's fiction--a relationship that was combative and teacherly and, she contends, a central aspect of his art. Meredith was concerned with "readable people," by whom he meant his readers (as he imagined them and as th
