Populating the Novel: Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life

Author/Contributor(s):	Steinlight, Emily
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	09/15/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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...