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Defoe's narratives : situations and structures.
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ISBN: 0198120672 9780198120674 Year: 1975 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

The Cambridge companion to the Eighteenth-Century novel
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ISBN: 0521429455 0521419085 0511999399 1139815199 9780521419086 9780521429450 9780511999390 Year: 1996 Volume: *13 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.

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 Cambridge history of English literature, 1660-1780
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ISBN: 0521781442 1107604591 1139053876 Year: 2005 Volume: *2 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. In essays by thirty distinguished scholars, recent historical perspectives and new critical approaches and methods are brought to bear on the classic authors and texts of the period. Forgotten or neglected authors and themes as well as new and emerging genres within the expanding marketplace for printed matter during the eighteenth century receive special attention and emphasis. The volume's guiding purpose is to examine the social and historical circumstances within which literary production and imaginative writing take place in the period and to evaluate the enduring verbal complexity and cultural insights they articulate so powerfully.


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The Cambridge companion to Daniel Defoe
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ISBN: 9780521858403 9780521675055 0521858402 0521675057 1139801295 1139002333 9781139002332 Year: 2008 Volume: *123 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hack. He is one of the eighteenth century's most lively, innovative and important authors, famous not only for his novels, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, but for his extensive work in journalism, political polemic and conduct guides, and for his pioneering 'Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain'. This volume surveys the wide range of Defoe's fiction and non-fiction, and assesses his importance as writer and thinker. Leading scholars discuss key issues in Defoe's novels, and show how the man who was once pilloried for his writings emerges now as a key figure in the literature and culture of the early eighteenth century.


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The Cambridge companion to "Robinson Crusoe"
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ISBN: 9781107043497 1107043492 9781107696808 1107696801 9781107338586 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"An instant success in its own time, Daniel Defoe's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe has for three centuries drawn readers to its archetypal hero, the man surviving alone on an island. This Companion begins by studying the eighteenth-century literary, historical and cultural contexts of Defoe's novel, exploring the reasons for its immense popularity in Britain and in its colonies in America and in the wider European world. Chapters from leading scholars discuss the social, economic and political dimensions of Crusoe's island story before examining the 'after life' of Robinson Crusoe, from the book's multitudinous translations to its cultural migrations and transformations into other media such as film and television. By considering Defoe's seminal work from a variety of critical perspectives, this book provides a full understanding of the perennial fascination with, and the enduring legacy of, both the book and its iconic hero"--

The Cambridge history of English literature, 1660-1780
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ISBN: 9781107604599 9781139053877 9780521781442 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. In essays by thirty distinguished scholars, recent historical perspectives and new critical approaches and methods are brought to bear on the classic authors and texts of the period. Forgotten or neglected authors and themes, as well as new and emerging genres within the expanding marketplace for printed matter during the eighteenth century, receive special attention and emphasis. The volume's guiding purpose is to examine the social and historical circumstances within which literary production and imaginative writing take place in the period and to evaluate the enduring verbal complexity and cultural insights they articulate so powerfully."--Jacket.


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The portrayal of women in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature

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Popular fiction before Richardson : narrative patterns 1700-1739
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Year: 1969 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon P.,

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