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Offering a revisionist account of the history of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Lauren Gillingham contends that nineteenth-century novelists found in fashion a temporal model for articulating a heightened sense of the evanescence of modernity and the cycle of novelty and obsolescence that organizes contemporary life.

Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 6/12/2025
      ISBN13: 9781009296588, 978-1009296588
      ISBN10: 1009296582
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      Book Synopsis
      Offering a revisionist account of the history of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Lauren Gillingham contends that nineteenth-century novelists found in fashion a temporal model for articulating a heightened sense of the evanescence of modernity and the cycle of novelty and obsolescence that organizes contemporary life.

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