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The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel: Scott, Bronte, Eliot, Wilde.

Publication: Yearbook of English Studies
Publication Date: 01-JAN-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel: Scott, Bronte, Eliot, Wilde.(Book review)

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The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel: Scott, Bronte, Eliot, Wilde. By Terence Dawson. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2004. vi + 300 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-4135-x.

This bold and rigorous study of the nineteenth-century novel is described by its author as 'an exercise in post-Jungian methodology and literary criticism' (p. 1). Its central claim is that 'the opening situation in a novel represents an implicit challenge facing not the obvious hero or heroine, but [...] the "effective protagonist"' (p. 1). After an introduction notable for its clear explication of the theoretical model and relevant critical terms, Terence Dawson devotes chapters to Ivanhoe (1819), The Picture of...

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