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A reader's guide to the eighteenth century English novel / by Frederick R. Karl.
LIBRA Special PR851 .K3 1974a
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karl, Frederick R. (Frederick Robert), 1927-2004.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 360 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Adversary literature.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Noonday Press, 1974.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the novel as subversion
- Don Quixote as archetypal artist and Don Quixote as archetypal novel
- Daniel Defoe : the politics of necessity
- Samuel Richardson and Clarissa
- Henry Fielding : the novel, the epic, and the comic sense of life
- Smollett's Humphry Clinker : the choleric temper
- Tristam Shandy, the sentimental novel, and sentimentalists
- Gothic, Gothicism and Gothicists
- Near-novels
- The development of technique in the eighteenth-century novel
- A chronology of eighteenth-century fiction and near-fiction.
- Notes:
- Originally published as The adversary literature.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-350) and index.
- OCLC:
- 1803879
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