Novel Beginnings: Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English FictionYale University Press, 1.10.2008 - 320 sivua In this study intended for general readers, eminent critic Patricia Meyer Spacks provides a fresh, engaging account of the early history of the English novel. Novel Beginnings departs from the traditional, narrow focus on the development of the realistic novel to emphasize the many kinds of experimentation that marked the genre in the eighteenth century before its conventions were firmly established in the nineteenth. Treating well-known works like Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy in conjunction with less familiar texts such as Sarah Fielding’s The Cry (a kind of hybrid novel and play) and Jane Barker’s A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies (a novel of adventure replete with sentimental verse and numerous subnarratives), the book evokes the excitement of a multifaceted and unpredictable process of growth and change. Investigating fiction throughout the 1700s, Spacks delineates the individuality of specific texts while suggesting connections among novels. She sketches a wide range of forms and themes, including Providential narratives, psychological thrillers, romans à clef, sentimental parables, political allegories, Gothic romances, and many others. These multiple narrative experiments show the impossibility of thinking of eighteenth-century fiction simply as a precursor to the nineteenth-century novel, Spacks shows. Instead, the vast variety of engagements with the problems of creating fiction demonstrates that literary history—by no means inexorable—might have taken quite a different course. |
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... courses. The repercussions of that development still continue to resound. To speak of “ordinary people” as central figures in the new novel is not to say that eighteenth-century novels were necessarily “realistic.” On the contrary: the ...
... courses. The repercussions of that development still continue to resound. To speak of “ordinary people” as central figures in the new novel is not to say that eighteenth-century novels were necessarily “realistic.” On the contrary: the ...
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... course of actual lives . In this chapter I propose , among other things , to initiate investigation of aspects of the early novel that the expectation of realism may obscure and to call attention to the complicated workings of fantasy ...
... course of actual lives . In this chapter I propose , among other things , to initiate investigation of aspects of the early novel that the expectation of realism may obscure and to call attention to the complicated workings of fantasy ...
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... course of English fiction. First, though, something about the cultural context these novels in- habited. The growing population of literate English men and women could find many kinds of prose besides that of romance narratives to ...
... course of English fiction. First, though, something about the cultural context these novels in- habited. The growing population of literate English men and women could find many kinds of prose besides that of romance narratives to ...
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... course seems literally inconceivable . Money also figures novelistically in ways quite remote from mar- riage . Whether an eighteenth - century fiction deals with prostitution or politics , confinement or adventure , untrammeled ...
... course seems literally inconceivable . Money also figures novelistically in ways quite remote from mar- riage . Whether an eighteenth - century fiction deals with prostitution or politics , confinement or adventure , untrammeled ...
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... who deliberately modeled his work after Richardson's , and of course Proust ) have attempted comparable prolongation . Barker , in con- trast, proceeds at a breakneck speed likewise rarely (if ever) 18 THE EXCITEMENT OF BEGINNINGS.
... who deliberately modeled his work after Richardson's , and of course Proust ) have attempted comparable prolongation . Barker , in con- trast, proceeds at a breakneck speed likewise rarely (if ever) 18 THE EXCITEMENT OF BEGINNINGS.
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4 Novels of Consciousness | 92 |
5 The Novel of Sentiment | 126 |
6 The Novel of Manners | 160 |
7 Gothic Fiction | 190 |
8 The Political Novel | 222 |
9 Tristram Shandy and the Development of the Novel | 254 |
What Came Next | 276 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 286 |
Works Cited | 292 |
Index | 298 |
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