Contents of What is the Role of Fiction?

Lecture Notes

A quick cliff notes version of Garvey's section on fiction would include the following points: fiction, like the advertisements of the period, helped to blur the distinction between information and propaganda. Fiction and adverts were selling something: a new product that fit in with older ideologies. In this respect, fiction served as a kind of instruction manual for women who wanted to take up bicycling. Finally, and as we have already seen, the fiction of the period was premised on the reinforcement of traditional heterosexual relationships and marriages.