Fact, fiction, and form : selected essays

Author(s)

• Rader, Ralph Wilson
• Phelan, James
• Richter, David H.

Bibliographic Information

Fact, fiction, and form : selected essays

Ralph W. Rader ; edited by James Phelan and David H. Richter

（The theory and interpretation of narrative series）

Ohio State University Press, c2011

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-360) and index

Contents of Works

• Fact, theory, and literary explanation
• The concept of genre in eighteenth-century studies
• Literary permanence and critical change
• Literary constructs : experience and explanation
• Literary form in factual narrative : the example of Boswell's Johnson
• The dramatic monologue and related lyric forms
• Notes on some structural varieties and variations in dramatic "I" poems and their theoretical implications
• Defoe, Richardson, Joyce and the concept of form in the novel
• The emergence of the novel in England : genre in history vs. history of genre
• From Richardson to Austen : "Johnson's rule" and the eighteenth-century novel of moral action
• Tom Jones : the form in history
• "Big with jest" : the bastardy of Tristram Shandy
• The comparative anatomy of three "baggy monsters" : Bleak house, Vanity fair, Middlemarch
• Barchester towers : a fourth baggy monster
• Lord Jim and the formal development of the English novel
• Exodus and return : Joyce's Ulysses and the fiction of the actual
• The logic of Ulysses, or why Molly had to live in Gibraltar

• NCID: BB08440620
• ISBN:
  • 9780814251805
• LCCN: 2011011036
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Columbus
• Pages/Volumes: 369 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN85
  • DC22 : 820.9
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Criticism -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA22792802