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Why has the realist novel been persistently understood as promoting liberalism? Can this tendency be reconciled with an equally familiar tendency to see the novel as a national form? In "A Probable State", Irene Tucker builds a revisionary argument about liberalism and the realist novel by shifting the focus from the rise of both in the 18th century to their breakdown at the end of the 19th. Through a series of intricate and absorbing readings, Tucker relates the decline of realism and the eroding logic of liberalism to the question of Jewish characters and writers and to shifting ideas of community and nation. Whereas previous critics have explored the relationship between liberalism and the novel by studying the novel's liberal characters, Tucker argues that the liberal subject is represented not merely within the novel, but in the experience of the novel's form as well. With special attention to George Eliot, Henry James, Oliver Wendell Holmes and S.Y. Abramovitch, Tucker show show we can understand liberalism and the novel as mode of recognizing and negotiating with history.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Probable State
• Subtitle: The Novel, the Contract and the Jews
• Author: Irene Tucker
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 318
• EAN: 9780226815336
• ID: 04867425
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 560 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 159 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. October 2000

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