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In quest of the self : masquerade and travel in the Eighteenth-Century novel : Fielding, Smollett, Sterne /

In recent decades the masquerade has enjoyed a revival in literary and cultural studies. It has been seen as a symptom of the irrational trends permeating the Age of Reason and as a sign of the instability, arbitrariness as well as non-essentiality of personal identity; notions testifying to affinit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lipski, Jakub (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2014.
Colección:Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 42.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • The Discourse of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
  • Fielding's Travellers
  • The Masquerading World
  • Joseph and Tom in the Masquerading World
  • Smollett's Travellers
  • Roderick's and Peregrine's Protean Identities
  • The Masquerading Protagonists
  • Tradition and Novelty in Yorick's Journey
  • The Poetics of Mask and Sentiment
  • Yorick as a Polyphonic Character
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.