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The eighteenth-century novel and contemporary social issues : an introduction /
This study introduces readers to the eighteenth-century novel through a consideration of contemporary social issues. Eighteenth-century authors grappled with very similar problems to the ones we face today such as: what motivates a fundamentalist terrorist? What are the justifiable limits of state p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Oroonoko, or, the history of the royal slave and race relations
- The life and strange suprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, born-again theology and intelligent design
- Gulliver's travels, multiculturalism and cultural difference
- Pamela; or, virtue rewarded and sexual abstinence
- The history of Tom Jones, a foundling and anti-social behavior
- The female Quixote; or, the adventures of Arabella and Northanger Abbey: the power of media and popular culture
- The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman and genetic inheritance
- The mysteries of Udolpho, a romance and family values
- Caleb Williams, or, things as they are and the surveillance society
- Waverley, or, 'tis sixty years since and disputed sovereignty
- Frankenstein, or, the modern Prometheus and artificial life
- The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner and fundamentalist terrorism.