04537oam 2200733zu 450 991049614900332120210803235405.00-520-92063-50-585-07944-710.1525/9780520920637(CKB)111054828792272(SSID)ssj0000191966(PQKBManifestationID)12023795(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191966(PQKBWorkID)10186446(PQKB)11580917(DE-B1597)649297(DE-B1597)9780520920637(EXLCZ)9911105482879227220160829d1998 uy engur|||||||||||txtccrLicensing entertainment : the elevation of novel reading in Britain, 1684-1750[Place of publication not identified]University of California Press19981 online resource (325 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-21296-7 0-520-20180-9 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: From a Literary to a Cultural History of the Early Novel -- 1 The Rise of the Novel in the Eye of Literary History -- 2 Licensed by the Market: Behn's Love Letters as Serial Entertainment -- 3 Formulating Fiction for the General Reader: Manley's New Atalantis and Haywood's Love in Excess -- 4 The Antinovel Discourse and Rewriting Reading in Roxana -- 5 The Pamela Media Event -- 6 Joseph Andrews as Performative Entertainment -- Conclusion: The Freedom of Readers -- Appendix -- Works Cited -- IndexNovels have been a respectable component of culture for so long that it is difficult for twentieth-century observers to grasp the unease produced by novel reading in the eighteenth century. William Warner shows how the earliest novels in Britain, published in small-format print media, provoked early instances of the modern anxiety about the effects of new media on consumers.Warner uncovers a buried and neglected history of the way in which the idea of the novel was shaped in response to a newly vigorous market in popular narratives. In order to rein in the sexy and egotistical novel of amorous intrigue, novelists and critics redefined the novel as morally respectable, largely masculine in authorship, national in character, realistic in its claims, and finally, literary. Warner considers early novelists in their role as entertainers and media workers, and shows how the short, erotic, plot-driven novels written by Behn, Manley, and Haywood came to be absorbed and overwritten by the popular novels of Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding. Considering these novels as entertainment as well as literature, Warner traces a different story-one that redefines the terms within which the British novel is to be understood and replaces the literary history of the rise of the novel with a more inclusive cultural history.English fictionHistory and criticism18th centuryGreat BritainLiterary formHistoryPopular literatureHistory and criticismEarly modern, 1500-1700Great BritainEnglish fictionHistory and criticism17th centuryGreat BritainBooks and readingHistory18th centuryGreat BritainBooks and readingHistory17th centuryGreat BritainLiterature publishingSocial aspects18th centuryGreat BritainLiterature and societyHistoryAuthors and readersHistoryEnglishHILCCLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCEnglish LiteratureHILCCEnglish fictionHistory and criticismLiterary formHistoryPopular literatureHistory and criticismEnglish fictionHistory and criticismBooks and readingHistoryBooks and readingHistoryLiterature publishingSocial aspectsLiterature and societyHistoryAuthors and readersHistoryEnglishLanguages & LiteraturesEnglish Literature823/.409Warner William Beatty458032PQKBBOOK9910496149003321Licensing entertainment : the elevation of novel reading in Britain, 1684-17502866383UNINA