LEADER 03504nam 2200625 450 001 9910828546003321 005 20210427024944.0 010 $a0-8122-9229-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812292299 035 $a(CKB)3710000000362823 035 $a(EBL)3442485 035 $a(DE-B1597)463529 035 $a(OCoLC)928987467 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812292299 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442485 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11024630 035 $a(OCoLC)932313358 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442485 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000362823 100 $a20150309h19971997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aInstitutions of the English novel from Defoe to Scott /$fHomer Obed Brown 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d1997. 210 4$dİ1997 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 225 0 $aCritical Authors and Issues 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-1603-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Beginning with No Beginning --$t1. The Errant Letter and the Whispering Gallery --$t2. The Displaced Self in the Novels of Daniel Defoe --$t3. Tom Jones: The "Bastard" of History --$t4. Tristram to the Hebrews: Some Notes on the Institution of a Canonic Text --$t5. Sir Walter Scott and the Institution of History: The Jacobite Novels in the Relation of Fathers --$t6. The Institution of the English Novel --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn Institutions of the English Novel, Homer Obed Brown takes issue with the generally accepted origin of the novel in the early eighteenth century. Brown argues that what we now call the novel did not appear as a recognized single "genre" until the early nineteenth century, when the fictional prose narratives of the preceding century were grouped together under that name. After analyzing the figurative and thematic uses of private letters and social gossip in the constitution of the novel, Brown explores what was instituted in and by the fictions of Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, and Scott, with extensive discussion of the pivotal role Scott's work played in the novel's rise to institutional status. This study is an intriguing demonstration of how these earlier narratives are involved in the development and institution of such political and cultural concepts as self, personal identity, the family, and history, all of which contributed to the later possibility of the novel. 410 0$aCritical Authors and Issues 606 $aCanon (Literature) 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain 606 $aLiterature and history$zGreat Britain 615 0$aCanon (Literature) 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society 615 0$aLiterature and history 676 $a823.009@221 700 $aBrown$b Homer Obed$f1933-$01652594 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828546003321 996 $aInstitutions of the English novel from Defoe to Scott$94003344 997 $aUNINA