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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825169403321

Autore

Bray Joe

Titolo

The epistolary novel : representation of consciousness / / Joe Bray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

1-134-40254-6

1-138-00872-9

1-280-54699-9

0-203-13057-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; ; 1

Disciplina

823/.509

Soggetti

Epistolary fiction, English - History and criticism

English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

Consciousness in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Sex and politics; 3 Reserve and memory; 4 Sentiment and sensibility; 5 From first to third; 6 Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way that the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel. Critics have drawn a distinction between the self at the time of writing and the self at the time at which events or emotions were experienced. This book demonstrates that the tensions within consciousness are the result of a continual interaction between the two selves of the letter-writer and charts the oscillation between these two selv