The Historical and Sociological Criticism of Fiction

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Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305-2004)
Ian P. Watt (Project Director: May 1977 to October 1990)

Seminar to examine the historical and sociological criticism of fiction. The seminar will consider how much background information is required to understand a novel whose social structure and values are so much different from ours; how these sociological and historical differences affect the way such novels should be judged; and what contributions various sociological theories of literature make towards the resolution of these problems.

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