Society in the novels of Joyce Cary.

• Main Author: Harvey, Mary. R.
• Other Authors: Files, H. (Supervisor)
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: McGill University 1954
• Subjects: English.
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=109781

Society in some sense, is the common birthright of all novelists. But for each writer, the word “society” has some particular meaning that is more precise than any general, all-inclusive definition. Society, for Jane Austen, meant the class-structure of her day and of her country. Nothing outside that concerned here as a novelist. The whole broad and varied expanse of eighteenth-century English life composed the society Henry Fielding depicted. Some novelists are interested primarily in a highly sophisticated and intellectual group of people, others in low life, and others still, in people of many social levels.