LEADER 03543nam 22006612 450 001 9910452023703321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-139-36568-1 010 $a1-107-22623-6 010 $a1-280-66392-8 010 $a9786613640857 010 $a1-139-37822-8 010 $a1-139-02155-9 010 $a1-139-37536-9 010 $a1-139-37679-9 010 $a1-139-37965-8 010 $a1-139-37137-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000000103577 035 $a(EBL)880653 035 $a(OCoLC)794707330 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000676920 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11469801 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000676920 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10684746 035 $a(PQKB)11022231 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139021555 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC880653 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL880653 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10565004 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL364085 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000103577 100 $a20141103d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Cambridge introduction to the eighteenth-century novel /$fApril London$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 250 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge introductions to literature 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-71967-4 311 $a0-521-89535-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart 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. 330 $aIn the eighteenth century, the novel became established as a popular literary form all over Europe. Britain proved an especially fertile ground, with Defoe, Fielding, Richardson and Burney as early exponents of the novel form. The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel considers the development of the genre in its formative period in Britain. Rather than present its history as a linear progression, April London gives an original new structure to the field, organizing it through three broad thematic clusters - identity, community and history. Within each of these themes, she explores the central tensions of eighteenth-century fiction: between secrecy and communicativeness, independence and compliance, solitude and family, cosmopolitanism and nation-building. The reader will gain a thorough understanding of both prominent and lesser-known novels and novelists, key social and literary contexts, the tremendous formal variety of the early novel and its growth from a marginal to a culturally central genre. 410 0$aCambridge introductions to literature. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823/.509 700 $aLondon$b April$0686487 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452023703321 996 $aThe Cambridge introduction to the eighteenth-century novel$92464717 997 $aUNINA