Download or read book Desire and Truth written by Patricia Meyer Spacks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-03-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.