Victorian fantasy literature and the politics of canon-making
This dissertation examines the non-literary and non-aesthetic reasons underlying the bias in favor of realism in the formation of the traditional literary canon of nineteenth-century British fiction. Since English literature first became a recognized academic discipline in Great Britain in the 1870s...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1990
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9101645 |