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050	0	0	_aPR851 _b.L55 2012
082	0	0	_a823.509 _223 _bLOC 2012
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100	1		_aLondon, April.
245	1	4	_aThe Cambridge introduction to the eighteenth-century novel / _cApril London.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_avii, 250 pages ; _c23 cm.
490	0		_aCambridge introductions to
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 227-233) and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Secrets and Singularity: 1. The power of singularity; 2. The virtue of singularity; 3. The punishment of singularity; Part II. Sociability and Community: 4. The reformation of family; 5. Alternative communities; 6. The sociability of books; Part III. History and Nation: 7. History, novel, and polemic; 8. Historical fiction and generational distance.
520			_a"In the eighteenth century, the novel became established as a popular literary form all over Europe. Britain proved an especially fertile ground, with Defoe, Fielding, Richardson and Burney as early exponents of the novel form. The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel considers the development of the genre in its formative period in Britain. Rather than present its history as a linear progression, April London gives an original new structure to the field, organizing it through three broad thematic clusters - identity, community and history. Within each of these themes, she explores the central tensions of eighteenth-century fiction: between secrecy and communicativeness, independence and compliance, solitude and family, cosmopolitanism and nation-building. The reader will gain a thorough understanding of both prominent and lesser-known novels and novelists, key social and literary contexts, the tremendous formal variety of the early novel and its growth from a marginal to a culturally central genre"--
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650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y18th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. _2bisacsh
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