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MISSISSIPPI REVIEW
COMMISSIONED SPIRITS:
The Shaping of Social
Motion in Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, and Hawthorne
Jonathan Arac
Arac discusses four major British and American writers and
their views on the disin tegration of urban life in the nineteenth
century, and how they crea ted a panoramic vision that fu lfilled
their need not just to represent, but to shape and direct their
world.
$14.00
DICKENS THE NOVELIST
F.R. and Q.D. Leavis
In this collection of essays, the brilliant and controversial critic
F. R.
Leavis and his wife challenge the view that Dickens was a
mere entertainer and argue that his mature novels reveal the
talents of a serious artist and critic of Victorian society.
$5.95
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