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The English novel in history 1700-1780
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ISBN: 0415190304 1280036001 0203393074 1134656432 9780203393079 9780415009508 0415009502 9780415190305 6610036004 9786610036004 0203396154 9780203396155 0415009502 9781134656431 9781280036002 9781134656387 9781134656424 020339710X 1134656424 Year: 1999 Volume: *3 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eigtheenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the major novelists, as well as evaluatiing the importance of lesser known ones. John Richetti traces the shifting subject matter of the novel, discussing: * scandalous and amatory fictions * criminal narratives of the early part of the century * the more disciplined, realistic, and didactic strain that appears in the 1740's

The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy
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ISBN: 0813137942 1283232928 9786613232922 0813171873 9780813171876 9780813137940 9781283232920 0813123593 9780813123592 0813191432 9780813191430 Year: 2005 Publisher: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky,

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The author of over eighty novels, plays, and volumes of poetry, Eliza Haywood is one of the most prolific and high-profile female authors of the eighteenth century. Her last novel, The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, is original for its unsentimental realism in its depiction of marriage and courtship among the leisure classes of the mid-eighteenth century. In his new introduction, editor John Richetti examines how Haywood's amusing and engaging prose explores the subtleties of eighteenth-century courtship. Out of print since the early nineteenth century, The History of Jemmy and Jenny

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