The excellence of falsehood : romance, realism, and women's contribution to the novel / Deborah Ross.

The excellence of falsehood : romance, realism, and women's contribution to the novel /

""The only excellence of falsehood ... is its resemblance to truth, "" proclaims a clergyman in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote. He argues that romances are bad art; novels, he implies, are better. This clergyman's remarks -- repeating what literary and moral auth...

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Main Author: Ross, Deborah, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1991.
Subjects:
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Realism in literature.
Literary form.
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