Reading the eighteenth-century novel

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Author:

Richter, David H., 1945- author.

ISBN:

9781118621110

9781118621134

9781118621097

9781118621141

9781118621103

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 240 pages)

Series:

Reading the novel

General Note:

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments viii 1 The World That Made the Novel 1 2 Oroonoko (1688) 34 3 Moll Flanders (1722) 51 4 Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740) 66 5 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (1749) 81 6 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. (1759-1767) 100 7 Evelina: The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (1778) 117 8 The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) 131 9 Things As They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) 151 10 Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since (1814) 171 11 Emma (1815) 189 12 The World the Novel Made 213 Selected Further Reading 226 Index 000.

Contents:

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 The World That Made the Novel -- The Novel before the Novel -- The Rise of the Novel -- Formal Realism -- Individualism -- The Reading Public -- The Origins of the English Novel 1600-1740 -- Causality and the Rise of the Novel -- Historical Presentism and the History of the Rise of the Novel -- A Rhetorical Theory of Narrative -- Truth and Fiction -- Story and Discourse -- Story: Plot Construction -- Story: Desires, Expectations, Responsibility -- Story: Unity and Pattern -- Discourse: Authors, Narrators, Audiences, and their Surrogates -- Discourse: Point of View, Focalization and Voice, and Representations of Speech and Thought -- Discourse: Order, Pacing, Frequency -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Oroonoko (1688) -- Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True History -- Oroonoko: The Initiation -- Aphra Behn -- Truth-Telling -- Fiction: Romance, Novel, History -- The Role of the Narrator -- The Digressions -- Slavery in Oroonoko -- History, News and the Royal Slave -- A Few Words about Fantomina -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Moll Flanders (1722) -- Daniel Defoe -- The World of Moll Flanders -- The Initiation -- Story and Discourse -- Psychological Realism -- Irony in Moll Flanders -- Naive Incoherent Autobiography -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740) -- The Author of Pamela -- The Creation of Pamela -- Reading Pamela -- Misreading/Rewriting Pamela -- The Masterpiece -- Notes -- Chapter 5 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (1749) -- The Author of Tom Jones -- Reading Joseph Andrews -- Reading Tom Jones -- The Plot of Tom Jones -- The Delayed Launch -- The Digressions -- Fortune vs. Providence -- Notes -- Chapter 6 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. (1759-1767) -- Structure -- Texture: The Local Effects -- The Hobbyhorse -- Satires on Learning.

The Bawdy Asterisk -- The Sentimental Moment -- Irony against the Reader -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Evelina: The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (1778) -- The Plot of Evelina -- Evelina and Gender -- Burney After Evelina -- Notes -- Chapter 8 The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) -- "Mother Radcliffe" -- The Development of the Gothic Romance as a Genre -- Plotting Udolpho -- The Gothic Atmosphere -- The Content and the Form: Politics and the Gothic Novel -- Reading the Dream -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Things As They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) -- The Author of Caleb Williams -- Political Justice -- Mary and Shelley -- The Genre of Caleb Williams -- The Back Story and the Back Stories of that Back Story -- Sexuality and Surveillance: The Psychology of the Stalker -- Imprisonment and Surveillance -- The Two Denouements -- "A Half-Told and Mangled Tale" -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since (1814) -- The Author of Waverley -- Waverley and History -- Reading Waverley: The Long, Slow Launch and the "Mediocre," Passive Hero -- Texture: Voice in Waverley -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Emma (1815) -- The Author of Emma -- The Structure of Emma -- Texture: Watching Emma Get Everything Wrong -- Structure: Emma as a Detective Novel: Mystery and Irony -- The Coincidental Denouement -- Texture: Free Indirect Discourse -- The Content of Emma: Class and Caste -- Emma and the Condition of England -- Notes -- Chapter 12 The World the Novel Made -- A Different World -- The Novel and the Development of a Mass Reading Public -- The Novel and the Modern Epistemé -- The Novel and Evolving Forms of Masculinity -- The Novel and Empathy -- A Conclusion, Which Should Have Been a Preface -- Notes -- Selected Further Reading -- General Studies on the Origin and History of the British Novel 1660-1820.

General Studies on Narrative and Narrative Theory -- Edited Collections of Essays on Narrative Theory -- Individual Authors -- Aphra Behn and Oroonoko -- Eliza Haywood and Fantomina -- Daniel Defoe and Moll Flanders -- Richardson and Pamela -- Fielding and Tom Jones -- Sterne and Tristram Shandy -- Burney and Evelina -- Radcliffe and The Mysteries of Udolpho -- Godwin and Caleb Williams -- Scott and Waverley -- Austen and Emma -- Index -- EULA.

Abstract:

"This book about reading the English novel during the "long eighteenth century," a stretch of time that, in the generally accepted ways of breaking up British literary history into discrete periods for university courses, begins some time after the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 and ends around 1830, before the reign of Queen Victoria. At the beginning of this period, the novel can hardly be said to exist, and writing prose fiction is a mildly disreputable literary activity. Around 1720, Daniel Defoe's fictional autobiographies spark continuations and imitations, and in the 1740s, with Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding's novels begin what is perceived as "a new kind of writing." By the end of the period, with Jane Austen and Walter Scott, the novel has not only come into existence, it has developed into a more-or-less respectable genre, and in fact publishers have begun to issue series of novels (edited by Walter Scott and by Anna Barbauld, among others) that establish for that time, if not necessarily for ours, a canon of the English novel. With the decline of the English drama and the almost complete eclipse of the epic, the novel has become by default the serious literary long form, on its way to becoming by the mid-nineteenth century, with Dickens, Thackeray, and Eliot, the pre-eminent genre of literature. This chapter will consider how and why the novel came to be when it did"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Note:

John Wiley and Sons

Subject Term:

English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.

Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.

Roman anglais -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique.

Livres et lecture -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.

LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.

LITERARY CRITICISM.

Books and reading

English fiction

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