Partisan Politics, Narrative Realism, and the Rise of the British Novel / by R. Carnell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carnell, Rachel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Fiction.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

European literature.

Literary Theory.

Fiction Literature.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

European Literature.

Local Subjects:

Literary Theory.

Fiction Literature.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

European Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2006.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book considers why narrative realism in literature is seen as a 'full account' of 'real life' and the individual self. Unconventionally, Carnell shows that the formal conventions of narrative realism emerged in the seventeenth century in response to an explosion of partisan writings that put into play competing versions of political selfhood.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Realism and the Rise of the Novel

1 Political Selfhood and Novelistic Character

2 Tory Ideology and Aphra Behn's Turn to the Novel

3 Daniel Defoe and the Whig Ideal of Selfhood

4 Partisan Debate and Moderation Politics in Samuel Richardson's Fiction

5 Jacobite Ideology and Eliza Haywood's Response to Whig Realism

Conclusion: Partisan Realisms and Canon Formation

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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I

J

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Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and index.

ISBN:

9786611365745

9781281365743

1281365742

9781403983541

1403983542

OCLC:

567964967