The English Novel in History 1700-1780

ISBN-13: 9780415190305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 290 str.

John J. Richetti

Opis

This text traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the major novelists (Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Burney and Sterne), as well as evaluating the importance of lesser known ones. The author traces the shifting subject matter of the novel, discussing: scandalous and amatory fictions by Behn, Manley and Eliza Haywood; criminal narratives of the early part of the century by Defoe; the more disciplined, realistic, and didactic strain that appears in the 1740's and 1750's; novels promoting new ideas about the nature of domestic life; and novels by women and how they relate to the shift of subject matter, by writers such as Haywood, Sarah Scott and Frances Sheridan.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments, 1. Introduction: fiction and society in eighteenth century Britain, 2. Amatory fiction: Behn, Manley, Haywood, 3. Defoe: mapping social totality, 4. From passion to suffering: Richardson and the transformation of amatory fiction, 5. Fielding: system and satire, 6. Smollett: resentment, knowledge, and action, 7. Women novelists and the transformation of fiction, 8. Sentimental narrative: philanthropy and fiction, Index

O autorze

Richetti, John