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Samuel Richardson and the Dramatic Novel /

Samuel Richardson, the founder of the modern English novel, gave shape to a previously unformed literary genre. Instrumental in the development of this new art form, Ira Konigsberg contends, is the influence of the drama. Although scholars have long suspected the influence of drama on Richardson...

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Auteur principal: Konigsberg, Ira
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:Samuel Richardson, the founder of the modern English novel, gave shape to a previously unformed literary genre. Instrumental in the development of this new art form, Ira Konigsberg contends, is the influence of the drama. Although scholars have long suspected the influence of drama on Richardson's writing, this is the first study to examine it in detail. In such matters as material, technique, and structure, Konigsberg seeks to show that Richardson found his precedents in Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama and that it was his integration of these dramatic elements with fiction which.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (152 pages).
ISBN:9780813163727