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Bad Form
Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-century Novel
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2008
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-533275-9 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-533275-9 (ISBN)
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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 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 of a number of nineteenth-century works-such as Eliot's Middlemarch, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and James's The Princess Casamassima-Kent Puckett reveals how the novel achieves its coherence thanks to minor mistakes that novels both represent and make. While uncovering the nineteenth-century novel's persistent social and structural reliance on the non-catastrophic mistake-eating peas with your knife, saying the wrong thing, overdressing-this lively study demonstrates that the novel's once considerable cultural authority depends on what we might otherwise think of as that authority's opposite: a jittery, anxious, obsessive attention to the mistakes of others that is its own kind of bad form.
Looking at last beyond the novel, Puckett concludes with a reading of Jean Renoir's classic film, The Rules of the Game, in order to consider the related fates of bourgeois sociability, the classic realist novel, and the social mistake. Drawing on sociology, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, and the period's large literature on etiquette, Puckett demonstrates that the nineteenth-century novel paradoxically relies on bad form in order to secure its own narrative form. Bad Form makes the case for the critical role that making mistakes plays in the nineteenth-century novel.
Looking at last beyond the novel, Puckett concludes with a reading of Jean Renoir's classic film, The Rules of the Game, in order to consider the related fates of bourgeois sociability, the classic realist novel, and the social mistake. Drawing on sociology, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, and the period's large literature on etiquette, Puckett demonstrates that the nineteenth-century novel paradoxically relies on bad form in order to secure its own narrative form. Bad Form makes the case for the critical role that making mistakes plays in the nineteenth-century novel.
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.
Preface: Making Mistakes ; 1. Some Blunders, an Introduction to Bad Form ; 2. Embarrassing Conventions, Embarrassing Bovary ; 3. Looking Good: Style and Reality in George Eliot ; 4. Hanging Together in Henry James ; Afterword: "j'ai envie d'foutre le camp" ; Works Cited
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.11.2008 |
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Zusatzinfo | 4 black-and-white illustrations |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 162 x 240 mm |
Gewicht | 418 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-533275-X / 019533275X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-533275-9 / 9780195332759 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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