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Popular Fiction before Richardson: Narrative Patterns 1700-1739 (Clarendon Paperbacks) - Couverture souple

Richetti, John

 
9780198112631: Popular Fiction before Richardson: Narrative Patterns 1700-1739 (Clarendon Paperbacks)
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ISBN 10 : 0198112637 ISBN 13 : 9780198112631
Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 1992

Synopsis

Now a standard work on the subject, Popular Fiction before Richardson surveys the largely forgotten fiction from the first forty years of the eighteenth century. Issued for the first time in paperback with a new introduction by the author, this is a study of those narratives which were written and widely read in England, but which have been previously neglected by historians of the novel. Richetti makes no claims for these works as literary achievements-they are seen, rather, as vigorous and highly successful commercial exploitations of enduring stereotypes such as the criminal, the traveller-merchant, the persecuted maiden, and the aristocratic seducer. Setting them against the background of the age, the book accounts for the attractiveness of such figures and their characteristic adventures, and evaluates the importance of these narratives in providing a set of conventional and meaningful characters and situations for the mid eighteenth-century masters of the novel such as Richardson and Fielding.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Now a standard work on the subject, Popular Fiction before Richardson surveys the largely forgotten fiction from the first forty years of the eighteenth century. Issued for the first time in paperback with a new introduction by the author, this is a study of those narratives which were written and widely read in England, but which have been previously neglected by historians of the novel. Richetti makes no claims for these works as literary achievements-they are seen, rather, as vigorous and highly successful commercial exploitations of enduring stereotypes such as the criminal, the traveller-merchant, the persecuted maiden, and the aristocratic seducer. Setting them against the background of the age, the book accounts for the attractiveness of such figures and their characteristic adventures, and evaluates the importance of these narratives in providing a set of conventional and meaningful characters and situations for the mid eighteenth-century masters of the novel such as Richardson and Fielding.

Revue de presse

`excellent and intelligent book' Times Literary Supplement

`a real book, a good book. He is thoughtful and he makes you think. He sees the inherent triviality of his material, but sees in this a far from trivial question, "What is the use of bad art?" To raise the question at all is to give the book substance. It tells us that the material is going to be handled intelligently.' Review of English Studies

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press, USA
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198112637
ISBN 13 
9780198112631
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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