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040 _aSDU
050 0 0 _aPR851
_bL847 C 2012
100 1 _aLondon, April.
_9199090
245 1 4 _aThe Cambridge introduction to the eighteenth-century novel /
_cApril London.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2012.
300 _a250 p.
490 0 _aCambridge introductions to
505 8 _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.
505 8 _aHKBU library
518 _aYT2025 M08
520 _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"--
650 0 _aEnglish fiction
_y18th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
_9198023
900 _a= C.1 SDU
942 _cGBE
_2lcc
999 _c107815
_d107815