From the pens of the contrivers : perspectives on fiction in the nineteenth-century novel

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dc.contributor.authorBromling, Laura Cappello
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorMorgentaler, Goldie
dc.date.accessioned2007-04-25T19:37:55Z
dc.date.available2007-04-25T19:37:55Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.descriptioniv, 120 leaves ; 28 cm.en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates the way that moral and aesthetic concerns about the relationship between fiction and reality are manifested in the work of particular novelists writing at different periods in the nineteenth century, Chapter One examines an early-century subgenre of the novel that features deluded female readers who fail to differentiate between fantasy and reality, and who consequently attempt to live their lives according to foolish precepts learned from novels. The second chapter deals with the realist aesthetic of W. M. Thackeray; focusing on the techniques by which his fiction marks its own relationship both to less realistic fiction and to reality itself. The final chapter discusses Oscar Wilde's critical stance that art is meaningful and intellectually satisfying, while reality and realism are aesthetically worthless: it then goes on the explore how these ideas play out in his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/154
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2003en
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Science
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en
dc.subjectEnglish fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticismen
dc.subjectRealism in literatureen
dc.subjectLiterature and society -- Great Britainen
dc.subjectAesthetics in literatureen
dc.subjectThackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 -- Aestheticsen
dc.subjectWilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Picture of Dorian Grayen
dc.subjectThackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 -- Criticism and interpretationen
dc.subjectWilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Aestheticsen
dc.subjectWilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretationen
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen
dc.titleFrom the pens of the contrivers : perspectives on fiction in the nineteenth-century novelen
dc.typeThesisen
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