Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature edited by Liisa Steinby and Aino Mäkikalli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinby, Liisa.

Contributor:

Mäkikalli, Aino, editor.

Steinby, Liisa, editor.

Series:

Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies ; 7.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.

European prose literature.

European fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

European fiction.

Narration (Rhetoric)--History--18th century.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Anthologies.

Genre:

Anthologies

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages). digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narrative and eighteenth-century literature from across Europe. At issue is the question of whether the theoretical concepts underpinning narratology are, despite their appearance of ahistorical generality, actually derived from the historical study of a particular period and type of literature. The essays take on aspects of eighteenth-century texts such as plot, genre, character, perspective, temporality, and more, coming at them from both a narratological and a historical perspective.

Contents:

Introduction : the place of narratology in the historical study of eighteenth-century literature

The eighteenth-century challenge to narrative theory

Formalism and historicity reconciled in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones

Perspective and focalization in eighteenth-century descriptions

Temporality in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

Temporality, subjectivity and the representation of characters in the eighteenth-century novel: from Defoe's Moll Flanders to Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre

Authorial narration reconsidered: Eliza Haywood's Betsy Thoughtless, Anonymous' Charlotte Summers, and the problem of authority in the mid-eighteenth-century novel

Problems of tellability in German eighteenth-century criticism and novel-writing

Immediacy: the function of embedded narratives in Wieland's Don Sylvio

The tension between idea and narrative form: the example as a narrative structure in Enlightenment literature

'Speaking well of the dead': characterization in the early modern funeral sermon

The use of paratext in popular eighteenth-century biography: the case of Edmund Curll

Peritextual disposition in French eighteenth-century narratives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-70037-3

1-04-078675-8

9781003700371

OCLC:

982228423

Publisher Number:

NSTC 500075648