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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... writing during the past fifteen years , this book has profited from my weekly lunches and literary discussions with Jerome McGann . Bruce Redford provided valuable suggestions at an early stage of my thinking ; and Aubrey Williams , to ...
... writing during the past fifteen years , this book has profited from my weekly lunches and literary discussions with Jerome McGann . Bruce Redford provided valuable suggestions at an early stage of my thinking ; and Aubrey Williams , to ...
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... writers paid lip service to the classic ideal that literature must both please and instruct, they increasingly emphasized the first of these goals even while proclaiming allegiance to the second. They often stressed also their claims to ...
... writers paid lip service to the classic ideal that literature must both please and instruct, they increasingly emphasized the first of these goals even while proclaiming allegiance to the second. They often stressed also their claims to ...
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... writers as Daniel Defoe began to organize fictions around the careers of imagined working-class or middle- class characters — not Everyman or Everywoman or, like John Bunyan in Pilgrim's Progress, Christian Man; not, like Aphra Behn in ...
... writers as Daniel Defoe began to organize fictions around the careers of imagined working-class or middle- class characters — not Everyman or Everywoman or, like John Bunyan in Pilgrim's Progress, Christian Man; not, like Aphra Behn in ...
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... writing , in Joseph Andrews , a “ comic Epic - Poem in Prose ” ( 4 ) . Although it would never claim the epic's high dignity , the novel indeed came to fulfill a traditional epic function by articulating the nation's values and its ...
... writing , in Joseph Andrews , a “ comic Epic - Poem in Prose ” ( 4 ) . Although it would never claim the epic's high dignity , the novel indeed came to fulfill a traditional epic function by articulating the nation's values and its ...
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... writers considered as a group. Such criticism has helped to create a situation in which it becomes possible to think about the way that men and women simultaneously shaped the course of English fiction. First, though, something about ...
... writers considered as a group. Such criticism has helped to create a situation in which it becomes possible to think about the way that men and women simultaneously shaped the course of English fiction. First, though, something about ...
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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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