03543nam 22006612 450 991045202370332120151005020622.01-139-36568-11-107-22623-61-280-66392-897866136408571-139-37822-81-139-02155-91-139-37536-91-139-37679-91-139-37965-81-139-37137-1(CKB)2550000000103577(EBL)880653(OCoLC)794707330(SSID)ssj0000676920(PQKBManifestationID)11469801(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000676920(PQKBWorkID)10684746(PQKB)11022231(UkCbUP)CR9781139021555(MiAaPQ)EBC880653(Au-PeEL)EBL880653(CaPaEBR)ebr10565004(CaONFJC)MIL364085(EXLCZ)99255000000010357720141103d2012|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Cambridge introduction to the eighteenth-century novel /April London[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2012.1 online resource (vii, 250 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge introductions to literatureTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-71967-4 0-521-89535-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I. Secrets and Singularity: 1. The power of singularity; 2. The virtue of singularity; 3. The punishment of singularity -- Part II. Sociability and Community: 4. The reformation of family; 5. Alternative communities; 6. The sociability of books -- Part III. History and Nation: 7. History, novel, and polemic; 8. Historical fiction and generational distance; Afterword: the history of the eighteenth-century novel.In the eighteenth century, the novel became established as a popular literary form all over Europe. Britain proved an especially fertile ground, with Defoe, Fielding, Richardson and Burney as early exponents of the novel form. The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel considers the development of the genre in its formative period in Britain. Rather than present its history as a linear progression, April London gives an original new structure to the field, organizing it through three broad thematic clusters - identity, community and history. Within each of these themes, she explores the central tensions of eighteenth-century fiction: between secrecy and communicativeness, independence and compliance, solitude and family, cosmopolitanism and nation-building. The reader will gain a thorough understanding of both prominent and lesser-known novels and novelists, key social and literary contexts, the tremendous formal variety of the early novel and its growth from a marginal to a culturally central genre.Cambridge introductions to literature.English fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.823/.509London April686487UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910452023703321The Cambridge introduction to the eighteenth-century novel2464717UNINA