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The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age.
Author : Michael McKeon
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 2002-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801869594
The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age.
Author : John Richetti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134656424
The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eigtheenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the major novelists, as well as evaluatiing the importance of lesser known ones. John Richetti traces the shifting subject matter of the novel, discussing: * scandalous and amatory fictions * criminal narratives of the early part of the century * the more disciplined, realistic, and didactic strain that appears in the 1740's and 1750's * novels promoting new ideas about the nature of domestic life * novels by women and how they relate to the shift of subject matter This original and useful book revises traditional literary history by considering novels from those years in the context of the transformation of Britain in the eighteenth century.
Author : Robert L. Caserio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316175103
The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrative of the novel's progress unfolds in more than fifty chapters, charting continuities and innovations of structure, tracing lines of influence in terms of themes and techniques, and showing how greater and lesser authors shape the genre. Pushing beyond the usual period-centered boundaries, the History's emphasis on form reveals the range and depth the novel has achieved in English. This book will be indispensable for research libraries and scholars, but is accessibly written for students. Authoritative, bold and clear, the History raises multiple useful questions for future visions of the invention and re-invention of the novel.
Author : David Trotter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134980175
Written especially for students and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, David Trotter's "The English Novel in History 1895-1920" provides a comprehensive introduction to early 20th-century fiction This study embraces the whole range of early 20th-century fiction, from avant-garde innovations to popular mass-market genres. Separate sections are devoted to James, Conrad, Kipling, Bennett, Lawrence, Lewis, and Joyce. It establishes a classification of literary styles in the period. Based on this classification, it offers an account of the subject-matters which preoccupied writers of all kinds: gender, race, nationality, sexual psychology, production and consumption. "The English Novel in History" aims to redefine our understanding of literary Modernism, and should be useful reading for all students of modern English literature.
Author : George Saintsbury
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 1998
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9788171567454
The Book Is A Standard And Comprehensive Study Of The English Novel. It Would Be Found Highly Useful By The Students, Researchers And Teachers Of English Literature.
Author : Steven Connor
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 1996
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0415072301
Written by a foremost scholar of contemporary culture and theory, this book offers not only a survey but also a historical and cultural context to British literature produced in the second half of the twentieth century.Steven Connor provides in-depth analyses of the novel and its relationship with its own form, with contemporary culture and with history. He incorporates an extensive and varied range of writers in his discussions such as* George Orwell* William Golding* Angela Carter* Doris Lessing * Timothy Mo* Hanif Kureishi* Marina Warner* Maggie GeeWritten by a foremost scholar of contemporary culture and theory, The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present offers not only a survey but also a historical and cultural context to British literature produced in the second half of this century.
Author : Jason H. Pearl
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813936241
Historians of the Enlightenment have studied the period’s substantial advances in world cartography, as well as the decline of utopia imagined in geographic terms. Literary critics, meanwhile, have assessed the emerging novel’s realism and in particular the genre’s awareness of the wider world beyond Europe. Jason Pearl unites these lines of inquiry in Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel, arguing that prose fiction from 1660 to 1740 helped demystify blank spaces on the map and make utopia available anywhere. This literature incorporated, debunked, and reformulated utopian conceptions of geography. Reports of ideal societies have always prompted skepticism, and it is now common to imagine them in the future, rather than on some undiscovered island or continent. At precisely the time when novels began turning from the fabulous settings of romance to the actual locations described in contemporaneous travel accounts, a number of writers nevertheless tried to preserve and reconfigure utopia by giving it new coordinates and parameters. Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and others told of adventurous voyages and extraordinary worlds. They engaged critically and creatively with the idea of utopia. If these writers ultimately concede that utopian geographies were nowhere to be found, they also reimagine the essential ideals as new forms of interiority and sociability that could be brought back to England. Questions about geography and utopia drove many of the formal innovations of the early novel. As this book shows, what resulted were new ways of representing both world geography and utopian possibility.
Author : Henry Fielding
Publisher :
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 1982
Category :
ISBN : 9780852291634
Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470779853
This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.
Author : Arnold Kettle
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 2022-10-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781015616592
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