Author: Robert W. UphausPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The Idea of the Novel in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Robert W. UphausPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The Self and It
Author: Julie ParkPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804756961
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Self and It makes a fresh and bold intervention in histories and theories of the rise of the novel by arguing that the material objects proliferating in eighteenth-century England's consumer markets worked in conjunction with the novel as vital tools for fashioning the modern self.
The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-century Britain
Author: David SpadaforaPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300046717
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enlightenment as well as to the economic revolutions of the period. Drawing on hundreds of eighteenth-century books and pamphlets, David Spadafora here provides the most extensive discussion ever written of this prevailing sense of historical optimism.
Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-century Literature
Author: Liisa SteinbyPublisher: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
ISBN: 9789089648747
Category : European fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narratology and eighteenth-century literature. It questions whether the general concepts of narratology are as such applicable to historically specific fields, or whether they need further specification. Furthermore, at issue is the question whether the theoretical concepts actually are, despite their appearance of ahistorical generality, derived from the historical study of a particular period and type of literature. In the essays such concepts as genre, plot, character, event, tellability, perspective, temporality, description, reading, metadiegetic narration, and paratext are scrutinized in the context of eighteenth-century texts. The writers include some of the leading theorists of both narratology and eighteenth-century literature.
Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Jennifer MilamPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644532336
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
"This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experiences occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. Contributors consider the approach taken by individual artists and the material formation of concepts in different contexts by asking new questions of artworks that are implicated by the need to see ideas in painted, sculpted, illustrated, designed, and built forms. The first four essays work with ideas about material objects and identity formation, while the last four essays address the intellectual work that can be expressed through or performed by objects. Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century thus introduces new visual materials and novel conceptual models into traditional accounts of the intellectual history of the Enlightenment."--Cover page 4.
Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered
Author: Kate ParkerPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611484847
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered beginswith the brute fact that poetry jostledup alongside novels in the bookstallsof eighteenth-century England. Indeed,by exploringunexpected collisions and collusionsbetween poetry and novels, this volumeof exciting, new essays offers a reconsideration of the literary and cultural history of the period. Thenovel poached from and featured poetry, and the “modern” subjects and objects privileged by “rise of the novel” scholarship are only one part of a world full of animate things and people with indistinct boundaries. Contributors: Margaret Doody, David Fairer, Sophie Gee, Heather Keenleyside, ShelleyKing, Christina Lupton, Kate Parker, Natalie Phillips, Aran Ruth, Wolfram Schmidgen, Joshua Swidzinski, and Courtney Weiss Smith.
Novel Bodies
Author: Jason S. FarrPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1684481090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Novel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists represent disability and sexuality in flexible ways to reconfigure the political and social landscapes of eighteenth-century Britain. In imagining the lived experience of disability as analogous to—and as informed by—queer genders and sexualities, the authors featured in Novel Bodies expose emerging ideas of able-bodiedness and heterosexuality as interconnected systems that sustain dominant models of courtship, reproduction, and degeneracy. Further, Farr argues that they use intersections of disability and queerness to stage an array of contemporaneous debates covering topics as wide-ranging as education, feminism, domesticity, medicine, and plantation life. In his close attention to the fiction of Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Scott, Maria Edgeworth, and Frances Burney, Farr demonstrates that disabled and queer characters inhabit strict social orders in unconventional ways, and thus opened up new avenues of expression for readers from the eighteenth century forward. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Fictions of Presence
Author: Rosalind BallasterPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783275588
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of presence in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.
The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Albert J. RiveroPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418929
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Provides twenty-first century readers with a new, comprehensive and suggestive account of the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century.
Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Author: David H. RichterPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118621107
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel is a lively exploration of the evolution of the English novel from 1688-1815. A range of major works and authors are discussed along with important developments in the genre, and the impact of novels on society at the time. The text begins with a discussion of the “rise of the novel” in the long eighteenth century and various theories about the economic, social, and ideological changes that caused it. Subsequent chapters examine ten particular novels, from Oroonoko and Moll Flanders to Tom Jones and Emma, using each one to introduce and discuss different rhetorical theories of narrative. The way in which books developed and changed during this period, breaking new ground, and influencing later developments is also discussed, along with key themes such as the representation of gender, class, and nationality. The final chapter explores how this literary form became a force for social and ideological change by the end of the period. Written by a highly experienced scholar of English literature, this engaging textbook guides readers through the intricacies of a transformational period for the novel.