Populating the Novel

From the teeming streets of Dickens’s London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life. In Populating the Novel, Emily Steinlight contends that rather than simply reflecting demographic growth, such pervasive literary crowding contributed to a seismic...

De pe strazile abundente ale Londrei lui Dickens pana la gospodariile fictiunii domestice, scriitorii britanici din secolul al XIX-lea au construit lumi inghesuite dincolo de capacitate cu viata umana. In Popularea romanului, Emily Steinlight sustine ca, mai degraba decat sa reflecte pur si simplu cresterea demografica, o astfel de aglomerare literara omniprezenta a contribuit la o seismica ...