02410cam a2200265 i 4500008004100000020001800041020001800059040000800077050002300085100002700108245008000135260006400215300001100279490003100290505041100321505001700732518001500749520103900764650005801803650007701861900001401938942001301952999001901965952016001984111220s2012    enk      b    001 0 eng    a9780521895354  a9780521719674  aSDU00aPR851bL847 C 20121 aLondon, April.919909014aThe Cambridge introduction to the eighteenth-century novel /cApril London.  aCambridge ;aNew York :bCambridge University Press,c2012.  a250 p.0 aCambridge introductions to8 aMachine 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.8 aHKBU library  aYT2025 M08  a"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"-- 0aEnglish fictiony18th centuryxHistory and criticism. 7aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.9198023  a= C.1 SDU  cGBE2lcc  c107815d107815  00102lcc406PR0851 L847 C2012708CGB9279503aSDUbSDUcGEN3d2025-08-27e2l0oPR851 L847 C 2012p1000376406r2025-08-27 00:00:00tC.1w2025-08-27yGBE