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:	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. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Available via EBSCO eBook Collection
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