Popular Fiction Before Richardson: Narrative Patterns, 1700-39 - Couverture rigide

Richetti, John J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198116810 ISBN 13 : 9780198116813

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1969

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Now 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 during the first forty years of the eighteenth century, but which have been hitherto neglected or despised by historians of the novel. The author 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. Placing them against the background of the age, the book sets out to account for the attractiveness of such figures and their characteristic adventures, and to evaluate 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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0198116810
• ISBN 13: 9780198116813
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible