02238cam a2200253 i 4500 111220s2012 enk b 001 0 eng 9780521895354 9780521719674 SDU PR851 L847 C 2012 London, April. 199090 The Cambridge introduction to the eighteenth-century novel / April London. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. 250 p. Cambridge introductions to Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Secrets and Singularity: 1. The power of singularity; 2. The virtue of singularity; 3. The punishment of singularity; Part II. Sociability and Community: 4. The reformation of family; 5. Alternative communities; 6. The sociability of books; Part III. History and Nation: 7. History, novel, and polemic; 8. Historical fiction and generational distance. HKBU library YT2025 M08 "In the eighteenth century, the novel became established as a popular literary form all over Europe. Britain proved an especially fertile ground, with Defoe, Fielding, Richardson and Burney as early exponents of the novel form. The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel considers the development of the genre in its formative period in Britain. Rather than present its history as a linear progression, April London gives an original new structure to the field, organizing it through three broad thematic clusters - identity, community and history. Within each of these themes, she explores the central tensions of eighteenth-century fiction: between secrecy and communicativeness, independence and compliance, solitude and family, cosmopolitanism and nation-building. The reader will gain a thorough understanding of both prominent and lesser-known novels and novelists, key social and literary contexts, the tremendous formal variety of the early novel and its growth from a marginal to a culturally central genre"-- English fiction 18th century History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. 198023 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 107815 107815 0 0 lcc 0 PR0851 L847 C2012 0 CGB 279503 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-08-27 2 0 PR851 L847 C 2012 1000376406 2025-08-27 00:00:00 C.1 2025-08-27 GBE