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I shall be discussing the theory and method of Anglo-American novel criticism in order to understand the way that the novel has been read, taught, and written about since 1900 in England and America. Implicitly and explicitly, I shall be arguing for the importance of an ideology of reading which I call the Humanistic Heritage. My hope is to contribute to a dialogue between traditional formal criticism that has dominated Anglo-American criticism and recent criticism, including structuralism, deconstruction, and Marxism.
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© 1986 Daniel R. Schwarz
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Schwarz, D.R. (1986). Introduction. In: The Humanistic Heritage. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08068-7_1
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