Before Novels Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction

Name: Before Novels Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction
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ISBN: 9780393308617

ISBN-10: 0393308618

ISBN-13: 9780393308617

Edition: 1990

Authors: Paul J. Hunter

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"By taking a close look at materials no previous twentieth-century critic has seriously investigated in literary terms--ephemeral journalism, moralistic tracts, questions-and-answer columns, 'wonder' narratives--Paul Hunter discovers a tangled set of roots for the early novel. His provocative argument for a new historicized understanding of the genre and its early readers brilliantly reveals unexpected affinities." --Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, University of Virginia

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/17/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.93" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Preface



What Was New about the Novel?



Novels and "The Novel": The Critical Tyranny of Formal Definition



Readers Reading



Looking Forward: Time



Looking Forward: Place



Looking Backward: a World Well Lost?



Journalism: The Commitment to Contemporaneity



Strange, but True: Fact, Certainty, and the Desire for Wonder



Didacticism: The Biases of Presentism and the Question of Pleasure



Directions of Didacticism: The Guide Tradition



Didacticism: The Contexts of Concern



The Self and the World.: Private Histories



The Self Observed: Private Vices, Public Benefits



The Self in the World: History, Biography, and Travel Books


Notes


Index