300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
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
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Richetti, John
