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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

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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
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