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- Title
Knowable.
- Authors
Parker, Ben
- Abstract
Raymond Williams influentially claimed that the history of the English novel could be organized through the problem of the "knowable community." This keyword entry rehearses, clarifies, and extends the idea of the "knowable" in Williams's theory of the novel. I argue that the dialectical (neither entirely subjective nor entirely objective) dimension of the concept has been overlooked, with attendant consequences for the important transition between George Eliot and Thomas Hardy in Williams's account.
- Subjects
WILLIAMS, Raymond, 1921-1988; ENGLISH fiction; HARDY, Thomas, 1840-1928; ELIOT, George, 1819-1880; BRITISH history
- Publication
Victorian Literature & Culture, 2023, Vol 51, Issue 3, p443
- ISSN
1060-1503
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1060150323000219