The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eigtheenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the major novelists, as well as evaluatiing the importance of lesser known ones. John Richetti traces the shifting subject matter of the novel, discussing: * scandalous and amatory fictions * criminal narratives of the early part of the century * the more disciplined, realistic, and didactic strain that appears in the...
The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eig...
The construction of history as a social common denominator is a powerful achievement of the nineteenth-century novel, a form dedicated to experimenting with democratic social practice as it conflicts with economic and feudal visions of social order. Through revisionary readings of familiar nineteenth-century texts The English Novel in History 1840-1895 takes a multidisciplinary approach to literary history. It highlights how narrative shifts from one construction of time to another and reformulates fundamental ideas of identity, nature and society. Elizabeth Ermarth discusses the...
The construction of history as a social common denominator is a powerful achievement of the nineteenth-century novel, a form dedicated to experimentin...
The construction of history as a social common denominator is a powerful achievement of the nineteenth-century novel, a form dedicated to experimenting with democratic social practice as it conflicts with economic and feudal visions of social order. Through revisionary readings of familiar nineteenth-century texts The English Novel in History 1840-1895 takes a multidisciplinary approach to literary history. It highlights how narrative shifts from one construction of time to another and reformulates fundamental ideas of identity, nature and society. Elizabeth Ermarth discusses the...
The construction of history as a social common denominator is a powerful achievement of the nineteenth-century novel, a form dedicated to experimentin...
Written especially for students and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, David Trotter's The English Novel in History 1895-1920 provides a comprehensive introduction to early 20th-century fiction
Written especially for students and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, David Trotter's The English Novel in History 1895-1920 provides a comp...
Steven Conner provides in-depth analyses of the novel and its relationship with its own form, with contemporary culture and with history. He incorporates a range of writers in his discussions, including: George Orwell, Angela Carter, Timothy Mo, Hanif Kureishi, Marina Warner and Maggie Gee. This study offers not only a survey but also a historical and cultural context to British literature produced in the second half of the 20th century.
Steven Conner provides in-depth analyses of the novel and its relationship with its own form, with contemporary culture and with history. He incorpora...
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...
This text traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the major novelists (Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Burne...
Written especially for students and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, David Trotter's "The English Novel in History 1895-1920" provides a comprehensive introduction to early 20th-century fiction This study embraces the whole range of early 20th-century fiction, from avant-garde innovations to popular mass-market genres. Separate sections are devoted to James, Conrad, Kipling, Bennett, Lawrence, Lewis, and Joyce. It establishes a classification of literary styles in the period. Based on this classification, it offers an account of the subject-matters which preoccupied writers of all...
Written especially for students and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, David Trotter's "The English Novel in History 1895-1920" provides a co...
