An examination of the printed material that was available to the reading public in early 18th-century England. The author explores the origins of the novel and argues that early novelists were motivated by the needs and desires of society at a time of migration, urbanization and social change.
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Neither time nor texts now have the stability that literary history once seemed to pledge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
literary species, novelistic features, individual novelists, early novelists, before novels, occasional meditation, cultural guardians, journalistic materials Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tom Jones, Looking Forward, Henry Fielding, John Dunton, Tristram Shandy, The Contexts of Concern, The Guide Tradition, The Commitment, Looking Backward, Readers Reading, Directions of Didacticism, Moll Flanders, World Well Lost, The Athenian Mercury, Private Histories, Robinson Crusoe, The Self, Grace Abounding, Public Benefits, Private Vices, Joseph Andrews, Occasional Meditations, The Second Spira, Pilgrim's Progress, The Ladies Library Browse Sample Pages:
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Neither time nor texts now have the stability that literary history once seemed to pledge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
literary species, novelistic features, individual novelists, early novelists, before novels, occasional meditation, cultural guardians, journalistic materials Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tom Jones, Looking Forward, Henry Fielding, John Dunton, Tristram Shandy, The Contexts of Concern, The Guide Tradition, The Commitment, Looking Backward, Readers Reading, Directions of Didacticism, Moll Flanders, World Well Lost, The Athenian Mercury, Private Histories, Robinson Crusoe, The Self, Grace Abounding, Public Benefits, Private Vices, Joseph Andrews, Occasional Meditations, The Second Spira, Pilgrim's Progress, The Ladies Library Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature: Reading Women's Lives, 1600-1680 by Sharon Cadman Seelig on 4 pages
- Gender and Language in British Literary Criticism, 1660-1790 by Laura L. Runge on page 80, page 156, and Back Matter
- The Boundaries of Fiction: History and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel by Everett Zimmerman on page 12, and page 101
- The Literary Channel: The Inter-National Invention of the Novel (Translation/Transnation) by Margaret Cohen on page 67, and Back Matter
- Commerce, Morality and the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Liz Bellamy on page 185, and Back Matter
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