1st Edition
Number and Pattern in the Eighteenth-Century Novel Defoe, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne
By Douglas Brooks
Copyright 1973
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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Numerological patterning in literature, where structural details of a literary work are symbolically related to its meaning on the verbal level, was particularly common from the Middle Ages up to the seventeenth century. Originally published in 1973, the author breaks new ground in revealing that familiarity with this technique lived on into the eighteenth century, supplying the more artistically... Read more
Preface. 1. Introduction: The Numerological Background 2. Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Captain Singleton, Colonel Jack 3. Defoe: Moll Flanders and Roxana 4. Fielding: Joseph Andrews 5. Fielding: Tom Jones and Amelia 6. Smollett: Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Ferdinand Count Fathom 7. Smollett: Humphrey Clinker 8. Sterne: Tristram Shandy. Appendix: Prefatory Table from The Holy Bible…, By the Late Rev. Mr Ostervald (1793). Select Bibliography. Index.
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Douglas Brooks
