| Title : | Making the novel : making the novel: fiction and society in Britain, 1660-1789 | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Brean S Hammond, Author | | Publisher: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, [England] : Palgrave | | Publication Date: | 2006 | | Pagination: | xii, 268 p. | | Size: | 23 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-333-62854-6 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-261) and index | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | English fiction -Early modern, 1500-1700 -History and criticism.
Literature and society -Great Britain -History -18th century.
| | Class number: | 823 | | Abstract: | This book advances a new cultural reading of the formation of the British novel. Rejecting a teleological narrative of the genre's 'rise' and through close analysis of key texts, the authors present a dynamic picture of the emergence of the novel, which focuses upon formal innovation, social engagement, and artistic and commercial competition.
'A wide-ranging and sophisticated study of the novel that neatly combines a survey of the history and theory of the novel with a series of insightful readings of some of the major works of the eighteenth-century. Best of all, it's unfailingly lively and readable and brings the eighteenth-century novel to life.' - Jack Lynch, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA | | Contents note: | Acknowledgements; Introduction : Modelling the Novel; Missing Parts : Fiction to Defoe; Novels and Anti-Novels : Contesting Fictions; Teaching Readers to Read : Richardson and Fielding; Renewing the Novel : Novelty, Originality, and New Directions; The Sympathetic Strain : Sterne and Sentimental Fiction; Narrating the Nation : Leisure, Luxury, and Politeness; Conclusion : Making the Novel, Reading the Novel; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13408 |
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