The English Novel in History, 1700-1780Psychology Press, 1999 - 290 Seiten 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: |
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INTRODUCTION Fiction and society in eighteenthcentury Britain | 1 |
AMATORY FICTION Behn Manley Haywood | 18 |
DEFOE Mapping social totality | 52 |
FROM PASSION TO SUFFERING Richardson and the transformation of amatory fiction | 84 |
FIELDING System and satire | 121 |
SMOLLETT Resentment knowledge and action | 162 |
WOMEN NOVELISTS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF FICTION | 196 |
SENTIMENTAL NARRATIVE Philanthropy and fiction | 243 |
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