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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
Changement social dans la littérature --- Social change in literature --- Sociale verandering in de literatuur --- #KVHA:Literatuurgeschiedenis; Engels --- English fiction --- Historical fiction, English --- Literature and history --- Literature and society --- Social change in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- 18th century --- Great Britain --- Historical fiction [English ] --- Fiction --- English literature --- anno 1700-1799
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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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