The conversational circle : re-reading the English novel, 1740-1775 /

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Twentieth-century historians of the early novel, most prominently Ian Watt, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Terry Castle, have canonized fictions that portray the individual in sustained tension with the social environment. Such fictions privilege a strongly linear structure. Recent reexaminations of the canon...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schellenberg, Betty A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
Temas:
1700-1799
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Conversation in literature.
Literature and society > England > History > 18th century.
Domestic fiction, English > History and criticism.
Oral communication in literature.
Social interaction in literature.
Friendship in literature.
Speech in literature.
Families in literature.
Roman anglais > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Conversation dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Roman familial anglais > Histoire et critique.
Communication orale dans la littérature.
Interaction sociale dans la littérature.
Amitié dans la littérature.
Parole dans la littérature.
Familles dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Domestic fiction, English.
English fiction.
Literature and society.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Narrating Sociability in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England
  • 1. Consensus, the Conversational Circle, and Mid-Eighteenth-Century Fiction
  • 2. Constructing the Circle in Sarah Fielding's David Simple
  • 3. Social Authority and the Domestic Circle in Samuel Richardson's Pamela Part II
  • 4. Socializing Desire and Radiating the Exemplary in Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison
  • 5. Silencing the Center in Henry Fielding's Amelia
  • 6. Authorizing the Marginalized Circle in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall
  • 7. Mobilizing the Community, Immobilizing the Ideal in Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker
  • 8. Disembodying the Social Circle in Sarah Fielding's Volume the Last
  • Conclusion: A Failed Plot? The Fate of the Conversational Circle in English Fiction.

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