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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961620903321

Autore

Carnell Rachel

Titolo

Partisan Politics, Narrative Realism, and the Rise of the British Novel / / by R. Carnell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006

ISBN

9786611365745

9781281365743

1281365742

9781403983541

1403983542

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Disciplina

823/.509358

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Fiction

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600

European literature

Literary Theory

Fiction Literature

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature

European Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Realism and the Rise of the Novel -- 1 Political Selfhood and Novelistic Character -- 2 Tory Ideology and Aphra Behn's Turn to the Novel -- 3 Daniel Defoe and the Whig Ideal of Selfhood -- 4 Partisan Debate and Moderation Politics in Samuel Richardson's Fiction -- 5 Jacobite Ideology and Eliza Haywood's Response to Whig Realism -- Conclusion: Partisan Realisms and Canon Formation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

This book considers why narrative realism in literature is seen as a 'full



account' of 'real life' and the individual self. Unconventionally, Carnell shows that the formal conventions of narrative realism emerged in the seventeenth century in response to an explosion of partisan writings that put into play competing versions of political selfhood.