LEADER 03990nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910452204203321 005 20191030193401.0 010 $a1-281-72196-4 010 $a9786611721961 010 $a0-300-12833-9 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300128338 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472017 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171427 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000212509 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11174883 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212509 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10137433 035 $a(PQKB)11256924 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000158278 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420052 035 $a(DE-B1597)485224 035 $a(OCoLC)1024051225 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300128338 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420052 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170078 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL172196 035 $a(OCoLC)923589279 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472017 100 $a20050819d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNovel beginnings$b[electronic resource] $eexperiments in eighteenth-century English fiction /$fPatricia Meyer Spacks 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 309 p.).) 225 1 $aYale guides to English literature 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-11031-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 293-297) and index. 327 $aThe excitement of beginnings -- Novels of adventure -- The novel of development -- Novels of consciousness -- The novel of sentiment -- The novel of manners -- Gothic fiction -- The political novel -- Tristram Shandy and the development of the novel. 330 $aIn this study intended for general readers, eminent critic Patricia Meyer Spacks provides a fresh, engaging account of the early history of the English novel. Novel Beginnings departs from the traditional, narrow focus on the development of the realistic novel to emphasize the many kinds of experimentation that marked the genre in the eighteenth century before its conventions were firmly established in the nineteenth. Treating well-known works like Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy in conjunction with less familiar texts such as Sarah Fielding's The Cry (a kind of hybrid novel and play) and Jane Barker's A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies (a novel of adventure replete with sentimental verse and numerous subnarratives), the book evokes the excitement of a multifaceted and unpredictable process of growth and change. Investigating fiction throughout the 1700's, Spacks delineates the individuality of specific texts while suggesting connections among novels. She sketches a wide range of forms and themes, including Providential narratives, psychological thrillers, romans à clef, sentimental parables, political allegories, Gothic romances, and many others. These multiple narrative experiments show the impossibility of thinking of eighteenth-century fiction simply as a precursor to the nineteenth-century novel, Spacks shows. Instead, the vast variety of engagements with the problems of creating fiction demonstrates that literary history-by no means inexorable-might have taken quite a different course. 410 0$aYale guides to English literature. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aExperimental fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterary form$xHistory$y18th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aExperimental fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterary form$xHistory 676 $a823/.509 700 $aSpacks$b Patricia Ann Meyer$0458628 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452204203321 996 $aNovel beginnings$92477342 997 $aUNINA