The Conversational Circle : Rereading 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
Autor principal: Schellenberg, Betty A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Speech in literature.
Social interaction in literature.
Oral communication in literature.
Literature and society.
Friendship in literature.
Families in literature.
English fiction.
Domestic fiction, English.
Conversation in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Familles dans la litterature.
Parole dans la litterature.
Amitie dans la litterature.
Interaction sociale dans la litterature.
Communication orale dans la litterature.
Roman familial anglais > Histoire et critique.
Litterature et societe > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Conversation dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Domestic fiction, English > History and criticism.
Literature and society > England > History > 18th century.
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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