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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.

Desire and Truth Functions of Plot in EighteenthCentury English Novels

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    Publisher: University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 6/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780226768458, 978-0226768458
    ISBN10: 0226768457

    Number of Pages: 272

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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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