English fiction of the eighteenth century, 1700-1789
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English fiction of the eighteenth century, 1700-1789
(Longman literature in English series)
Longman, 1987
- : pbk
Available at 45 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The novel was a completely new literary development in the eighteenth century. The great variety and individuality of approach made the novel an extremely responsive and versatile vehicle for contemporary social reporting and analysis, and for psychological discovery. This book explores Eigtheenth Century English fiction by focusing on the five major figures who are still widely read today - Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne and Smollett; it also shows that the 'minor' figures must also be noted for their place in this remarkably prolific period.
Table of Contents
1. The Unstable Genre: Novels and Readers, 1692-1785. 2. Fictional Lives and Realist Fiction: Daniel Defoe. 3. Private Letters and Public Intentions: Samuel Richardson. 4. Forms for Public Art: Henry Fielding. 5. Satire and Romance: Tobias Smollett. 6. A Form for Self-Realization: Laurence Sterne. 7. Transition and Transformation: Society, Sentiment, and the Self in the Novel, 1764-1789. Postscript Chronology General Bibliographies Individual Authors Index
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