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Bad Form : Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel

ISBN: 9780195332759 | 019533275X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/21/2008

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Kent Puckett is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

What- other than embarassment- could one hope to gain from prolonged exposure to the social mistake? Why think much about what many would like simply to forget? In Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth Century Novel"R Ket Puckett argues that whatever its awkwardness, the social mistake--the blunder, the gaffe, the faux pas-is a figure of critical importance to the nineteenth-century novel. With significant new readings ... MORE
Preface: Making Mistakes
Some Blunders, an Introduction to Bad Form
Embarrassing Conventions, Embarrassing Bovary
Looking Good: Style and Reality in George Eliot
Hanging Together in Henry James
Afterword: "j'ai envie d'foutre le camp"
Works Cited
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Kent Puckett is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is, with Derek Nystrom, the author of Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: A Conversation with Richard Rorty.

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