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"This book considers how writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries engaged critically and creatively with the idea of utopia--in particular the idea of utopia as a geographic location--and how questions about world geography and utopian possibility drove many of the formal innovations of the early English novel. Works examined include Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Captain Singleton, and Swift's Gulliver's Travels"--

English fiction --- Geography in literature. --- Utopias in literature. --- Topography in literature --- Utopian literature --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Swift, Jonathan, --- Defoe, Daniel, --- Behn, Aphra, --- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, --- Utopias in literature --- Geography in literature --- 094:820-3 --- 82-313.2 --- 82-313.2 Utopische roman --- Utopische roman --- 094:820-3 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Engelse literatuur : proza --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Engelse literatuur : proza --- History and criticism

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English society in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was fascinated by deception, and concerns about deceptive narratives had a profound effect on reading practices. Kate Loveman's interdisciplinary study explores the ways in which reading habits, first developed to deal with suspect political and religious texts, were applied to a range of genres, and, as authors responded to readers' critiques, shaped genres. Examining responses to authors such as Defoe, Swift, Richardson and Fielding, Loveman investigates reading as a sociable activity, centered on strategies of 'shamming', which involved readers in public displays of reason, wit and ironic pretence as they discussed the credibility of oral and written narratives. Widely understood by early modern readers and authors, the codes of this rhetoric have now been forgotten, to the detriment of our perception of the period's literature and politics. Loveman's book offers a striking new approach to Restoration and eighteenth-century literary culture and, in particular, to understanding the development of the novel.

Fiction --- Sociology of literature --- English literature --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Authors and readers --- Books and reading --- English fiction --- Impostors and imposture --- Literary forgeries and mystifications --- Politics and literature --- 028 --- 094:820-3 --- 820-3 "16" --- 820-3 "17" --- 82.085.43 --- 82:32 --- Frauds, Literary --- Literary frauds --- Literary hoaxes --- Literary mystifications --- Mystifications, Literary --- Authorship --- Errors and blunders, Literary --- Forgery --- Hoaxes --- Literary curiosa --- Anonyms and pseudonyms --- Imaginary books and libraries --- Pasticcio --- Charlatans --- Imposters --- Pretenders --- Crime --- Criminals --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Readers and authors --- 82:32 Literatuur en politiek --- Literatuur en politiek --- 82.085.43 Literaire receptie --- Literaire receptie --- 028 Lezen. Lectuur --- Lezen. Lectuur --- 094:820-3 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Engelse literatuur : proza --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Engelse literatuur : proza --- 820-3 "17" Engelse literatuur: proza--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Engelse literatuur: proza--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- 820-3 "16" Engelse literatuur: proza--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- Engelse literatuur: proza--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- History --- History and criticism --- Appraisal --- Evaluation