Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels by Patricia Meyer Spacks

Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels

Patricia Meyer Spacks

272 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

fiction reference challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Desire and Truth offers a major reassessment of the history of eighteenth-century fiction by showing how plot challenges or reinforces conventional categories of passion and rationality. Arguing that fiction creates and conveys its essential truth...

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