The epistolary novel : representation of consciousness / / Joe Bray

• Autore: Bray Joe
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.509
• Soggetto topico: Epistolary fiction, English - History and criticism; English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism; Consciousness in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Sex and politics; 3 Reserve and memory; 4 Sentiment and sensibility; 5 From first to third; 6 Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way that the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel. Critics have drawn a distinction between the self at the time of writing and the self at the time at which events or emotions were experienced. This book demonstrates that the tensions within consciousness are the result of a continual interaction between the two selves of the letter-writer and charts the oscillation between these two selv
• Titolo autorizzato: The epistolary novel
• ISBN: 1-134-40254-6; 1-138-00872-9; 1-280-54699-9; 0-203-13057-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825169403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; ; 1.