London April (University Of Ottawa)
London April (University Of Ottawa) - The Cambridge Introduction To The Eighteenth - Century Novel - Paperback
London April (University Of Ottawa) - The Cambridge Introduction To The Eighteenth - Century Novel - Paperback
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Description: In the eighteenth century the novel became established as a popular literary form all over Europe. Britain proved an especially fertile ground with Defoe Fielding Richardson and Burney as early exponents of the novel form. The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth - Century Novel considers the development of the genre in its formative period in Britain. Rather than present its history as a linear progression April London gives an original new structure to the field organizing it through three broad thematic clusters identity community and history. Within each of these themes she explores the central tensions of eighteenth - century fiction: between secrecy and communicativeness independence and compliance solitude and family cosmopolitanism and nation - building. The reader will gain a thorough understanding of both prominent and lesser - known novels and novelists key social and literary contexts the tremendous formal variety of the early novel and its growth from a marginal to a culturally central genre.
Title: The Cambridge Introduction To The Eighteenth - Century Novel
Author(s): London April (University Of Ottawa)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9780521719674
Pages: 260 Pages, 1 Halftones, Unspecified
Publication Date: 4/5/2012
Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
Description: In the eighteenth century the novel became established as a popular literary form all over Europe. Britain proved an especially fertile ground with Defoe Fielding Richardson and Burney as early exponents of the novel form. The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth - Century Novel considers the development of the genre in its formative period in Britain. Rather than present its history as a linear progression April London gives an original new structure to the field organizing it through three broad thematic clusters identity community and history. Within each of these themes she explores the central tensions of eighteenth - century fiction: between secrecy and communicativeness independence and compliance solitude and family cosmopolitanism and nation - building. The reader will gain a thorough understanding of both prominent and lesser - known novels and novelists key social and literary contexts the tremendous formal variety of the early novel and its growth from a marginal to a culturally central genre.
Title: The Cambridge Introduction To The Eighteenth - Century Novel
Author(s): London April (University Of Ottawa)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9780521719674
Pages: 260 Pages, 1 Halftones, Unspecified
Publication Date: 4/5/2012
Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
