"Desire and Truth" offers a major reassessment of the history of eighteenth-century fiction by showing how plot challenges or reinforces conventional categories of passion and rationality. Arguing that fiction creates and conveys its essential truths through plot, Patricia Meyer Spacks demonstrates that eighteenth-century fiction is both profoundly realistic and consistently daring.
- ISBN10 0226768473
- ISBN13 9780226768472
- Publish Date 20 March 1994 (first published 20 April 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 November 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English