Novel beginnings : experiments in eighteenth-century English fiction /

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This fresh account of eighteenth-century English fiction departs from the traditional focus on the realistic novel to emphasise the many kinds of experimentation that marked the genre before the conventions of the novel were firmly established. Treating well-known works like "Tom Jones" an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Spacks, Patricia Meyer (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006.
Series:Yale guides to English literature.
Subjects:
1700-1799
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Experimental fiction, English > History and criticism.
Literary form > History > 18th century.
Roman anglais > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Genres littéraires > Histoire > 18e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction
Experimental fiction, English
Literary form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The excitement of beginnings
  • Novels of adventure
  • The novel of development
  • Novels of consciousness
  • The novel of sentiment
  • The novel of manners
  • Gothic fiction
  • The political novel
  • Tristram Shandy and the development of the novel.

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