Meredith and the Novel

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-12

3. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

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   Pages 13-46

4. The Novels of the 1860s

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   Pages 47-88

5. The Adventures of Harry Richmond

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   Pages 89-110

6. Beauchamp’s Career

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   Pages 111-149

7. The Egoist

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   Pages 150-186

8. The Tragic Comedians

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   Pages 187-204

9. Diana of the Crossways

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   Pages 205-229

10. The Final Phase

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    Pages 230-253

11. Back Matter

    Pages 254-286

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Meredith is a novelist whom many readers have discovered with excitement, drawn to his radical portrayal of social and personal relations, especially of gender. Neil Robert's book is the first full-length study for ten years, and is the first to examine the novels in the light of modern literary theory, especially the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, showing that Meredith is a writer who engages profoundly with the ideological discourses of his time and is a still not fully discovered precursor of the modernist novel.

• literary theory
• novel
• time
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Sheffield, UK

  Neil Roberts

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