A reader's guide to the development of the English novel in the eighteenth century / Frederick R. Karl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karl, Frederick R. (Frederick Robert), 1927-2004.

Standardized Title:

Adversary literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

English fiction.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Handbooks and manuals.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 360 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Manufacture:

Southampton : Printed by The Camelot Press Ltd.

Other Title:

Development of the English novel in the 18th century

Place of Publication:

London : Thames and Hudson, [1975]

Contents:

Introduction: The novel as subversion

Don Quixote as archetypal artist and Don Quite 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 Humphrey Clinker: The choleric temper

Tristram Shandy, the sentimental novel, and sentimentalists

Gothic, gothicism, and gothicists

Near-novels

The development of technique in the eighteenth-century novel.

Notes:

"Originally published ... by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1974, under title 'The adversary literature, the English Novel in the Eighteenth Century : a study in genres'."

"First published in Great Britain in 1975 by Thames and Hudson Ltd., London."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-350) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1976".

ISBN:

0500140200

9780500140208

050015015X

9780500150153

OCLC:

1686475