Mark Rutherford and Spinoza.

Assumes that the novels of fictional author Mark Rutherford are major texts in the history of fiction, challenging the organicist aesthetic of conservative modernism as well as demanding a re-reading of nineteenth-century history. Explanation on the three problems to which Spinoza provides answers which open up the conditions on which Rutherford texts are produced; Information on "Catharine Furze," the most overtly anti-Spinozan text published in the year before the second edition of "Ethic"; Ways of reading the book "The Autobiography."