Two Centuries of the English Novel
Author: Harold Williams
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patricia Meyer Spacks
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0300128339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study intended for general readers, eminent critic Patricia Meyer Spacks provides a fresh, engaging account of the early history of the English novel. Novel Beginnings departs from the traditional, narrow focus on the development of the realistic novel to emphasize the many kinds of experimentation that marked the genre in the eighteenth century before its conventions were firmly established in the nineteenth. Treating well-known works like Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy in conjunction with less familiar texts such as Sarah Fielding’s The Cry (a kind of hybrid novel and play) and Jane Barker’s A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies (a novel of adventure replete with sentimental verse and numerous subnarratives), the book evokes the excitement of a multifaceted and unpredictable process of growth and change. Investigating fiction throughout the 1700s, Spacks delineates the individuality of specific texts while suggesting connections among novels. She sketches a wide range of forms and themes, including Providential narratives, psychological thrillers, romans à clef, sentimental parables, political allegories, Gothic romances, and many others. These multiple narrative experiments show the impossibility of thinking of eighteenth-century fiction simply as a precursor to the nineteenth-century novel, Spacks shows. Instead, the vast variety of engagements with the problems of creating fiction demonstrates that literary history—by no means inexorable—might have taken quite a different course.
Author: Sir Harold Herbert Williams
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 448
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Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Gorra
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 134911457X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'So far as the young were concerned,' Orwell wrote of Britain in the years after the Great War, 'the official beliefs were dissolving like sandcastles.' Most critical accounts of that postwar generation have been constrained by having to deal with the myth of the 'thirties.' Michael Gorra's innovation in this exciting study of the postwar generation's major novelists lies in seeing the consequences of that dissolution in formal rather than political terms, arguing that the novelist's difficulty in representing human character in what Wyndham Lewis called a 'shell-shocked' age is itself a sign of that loss of belief. But while most studies of this generation end with the coming of World War 2, Gorra follows these novelists throughout their careers. The result is a book that not only shows how the British novel's increasing consciousness of its own limitations stands as a mirror to the country's loss of power, but also provides memorable portraits of four major twentieth century writers.
Author: Michael McKeon
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2002-05-22
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780801869594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age.
Author: Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-10-19
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 1405192453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral context Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century Explores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy Covers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and science Considers both canonical and non-canonical literature
Author: Christoph Reinfandt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-06-12
Total Pages: 613
ISBN-13: 3110369486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook systematically charts the trajectory of the English novel from its emergence as the foremost literary genre in the early twentieth century to its early twenty-first century status of eccentric eminence in new media environments. Systematic chapters address ̒The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genreʼ, ̒The Novel in the Economy’, ̒Genres’, ̒Gender’ (performativity, masculinities, feminism, queer), and ̒The Burden of Representationʼ (class and ethnicity). Extended contextualized close readings of more than twenty key texts from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) to Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island (2015) supplement the systematic approach and encourage future research by providing overviews of reception and theoretical perspectives.
Author: Harold Williams
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-01-14
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780483096479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Two Centuries of the English Novel Chapter VI. Has already appeared, in lengthier form, in the Westminster Review, and for permission to reproduce it here, I have to acknowledge my indebtedness. My thanks are due to my brother, Mr. O. H. Williams, for assistance in the preparation of the index. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.