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by Patricia Meyer Spacks

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Desire and Truth offers a major reassessment of the history of eighteenth-century fiction by showing how plot challenges or reinforces conventional categories of passion and rationality. Arguing that fiction creates and conveys its essential truths through plot, Patricia Meyer Spacks demonstrates that eighteenth-century fiction is both profoundly realistic and consistently daring.

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  • Title Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels
  • Author Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Publication date 1990-04
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780226768458 / 0226768457
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 6.26 x 0.87 in (23.72 x 15.90 x 2.21 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex in literature, Desire in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 89027725
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.509
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