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By Cates Baldridge

ISBN-10: 0874516668

ISBN-13: 9780874516661

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Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Preface xi Part I: Monologic Disruptions 1. Novelistic Form and the Limits to Cultural Collaboration 3 2. Wakefield's Vicar, Delinquent Paragon 21 3. The Anti-Romantic Polemics of Mansfield Park 40 4. Bildungsromans That Aren't: Agnes Grey and Oliver Twist 63 Part II: Dialogic Enactments 5. Foucault, Neo-Marxism, and the Cultural Conversation 93 6. Interminable Conversations: Social Concord in Mary Barton and North and South 119 7. Individual Vs. Collectivity in A Tale of Two Cities 144 Conclusion: Does Subversion Make a Difference?

Novelists, like Shelley's poets, have thus become, in an ironic and despairing sense, the Page xii unacknowledged legislators of the worldlegislators in a thoroughly rubber-stamp Assembly, producing decrees that, whatever their rhetorical splendor, cannot help but function as so many lettres de cachet. The Dialogics of Dissent takes issue with this prevalent critical consensus, for my central argument is that any balanced perspective on the politics of the novel must take account not only of the ways in which it seconds and promotes the hegemonic discourses of bourgeois culture but of those means by which it occasionally obstructs, exposes, decenters, and subverts them.

This is so because a hero or heroine is, even in the twentieth-century novel, a character with whom the author and audience must, almost by definition, identify to some extent, and this act of identification cannot be deferred too longthat is to say, it must precede his or her arrival at the Beulah Land of cultural conformity that usually comprises the book's denouement, as a mental review of any of the novels in Davis's schedule will confirm. Indeed, Bakhtin would likely maintain that in some of the works there cited even the protagonist's initial ideological position, however disquieting to middle-class pieties, facilitates the process of identification only because it is allowed to fully "sound," to carry with it the coherence and conviction that allows us to experience it as if from the inside and thereby to feel that we are engaged with a human being instead of a straw man and reading a novel instead of an apologue.

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