TY - BOOK AU - Armstrong,Nancy TI - How novels think: the limits of British individualism from 1719-1900 SN - 0231130597 (pbk. : alk. paper) PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - English fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Individualism in literature KW - Literature and society KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Didactic fiction, English KW - Ethics in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-186) and index; How the misfit became a moral protagonist -- When novels made nations -- Why a good man is hard to find in Victorian fiction -- The polygenetic imagination -- The necessary gothic ER -