Desire and Truth
Author: Patricia Meyer Spacks
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1994-03-20
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780226768472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesire 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 truths through plot, Patricia Meyer Spacks demonstrates that eighteenth-century fiction is both profoundly realistic and consistently daring.