Author: Rockwell, Joan
Title: Fact in Fiction: The Use of Literature in the Systematic Study of Society
Description: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1974). orig.boards. 22x14cm, x,211 pp.. Slight top page-edge soil, minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Principles & Methods; Language & Literature; The Transmission of Norms in Fiction; The so-called 'Realism of the Novel; Some Attempts at ' Sociology through Literature'; Fact in Fiction: The Use of Fiction in the Deduction of Facts About Society; Some Speculations on the Possible Existence of a Matriarchal Society in Greece, based on the 'Oresteia' of Aeschylus; Normative Attitudes of Spies in Fiction.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, Literary Criticism, Sociological, Social History, Historiography, Literature, Fiction, Novel,