LEADER 04527oam 2200733zu 450 001 9910496149003321 005 20210803235405.0 010 $a0-520-92063-5 010 $a0-585-07944-7 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520920637 035 $a(CKB)111054828792272 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000191966 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12023795 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191966 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10186446 035 $a(PQKB)11580917 035 $a(DE-B1597)649297 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520920637 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111054828792272 100 $a20160829d1998 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLicensing entertainment : the elevation of novel reading in Britain, 1684-1750 210 31$a[Place of publication not identified]$cUniversity of California Press$d1998 215 $a1 online resource (325 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-520-21296-7 311 $a0-520-20180-9 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPreface: From a Literary to a Cultural History of the Early Novel -- $t1 The Rise of the Novel in the Eye of Literary History -- $t2 Licensed by the Market: Behn's Love Letters as Serial Entertainment -- $t3 Formulating Fiction for the General Reader: Manley's New Atalantis and Haywood's Love in Excess -- $t4 The Antinovel Discourse and Rewriting Reading in Roxana -- $t5 The Pamela Media Event -- $t6 Joseph Andrews as Performative Entertainment -- $tConclusion: The Freedom of Readers -- $tAppendix -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aNovels 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. 606 $aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism$y18th century$zGreat Britain 606 $aLiterary form$xHistory 606 $aPopular literature$xHistory and criticism$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$zGreat Britain 606 $aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism$y17th century$zGreat Britain 606 $aBooks and reading$xHistory$y18th century$zGreat Britain 606 $aBooks and reading$xHistory$y17th century$zGreat Britain 606 $aLiterature publishing$xSocial aspects$y18th century$zGreat Britain 606 $aLiterature and society$xHistory 606 $aAuthors and readers$xHistory 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aEnglish Literature$2HILCC 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aLiterary form$xHistory. 615 0$aPopular literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature publishing$xSocial aspects 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory. 615 0$aAuthors and readers$xHistory. 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aEnglish Literature 676 $a823/.409 700 $aWarner$b William Beatty$0458032 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910496149003321 996 $aLicensing entertainment : the elevation of novel reading in Britain, 1684-1750$92866383 997 $aUNINA