Samuel Richardson and the Dramatic Novel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Konigsberg, Ira.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--Technique.

Fiction.

Epistolary fiction, English--History and criticism.

Epistolary fiction, English.

Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761--Criticism and interpretation.

Richardson, Samuel.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, [Kentucky] : University Press of Kentucky, 1968.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Samuel Richardson, the founder of the modern English novel, gave shape to a previously unformed literary genre. Instrumental in the development of this new art form, Ira Konigsberg contends, is the influence of the drama. Although scholars have long suspected the influence of drama on Richardson's writing, this is the first study to examine it in detail.In such matters as material, technique, and structure, Konigsberg seeks to show that Richardson found his precedents in Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama and that it was his integration of these dramatic elements with fiction which

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments ; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Novelist Q Critic of the Drama ; CHAPTER TWO: Maidens Q Libertines ; CHAPTER THREE: Sentimental Literature 6. Static Sensibility ; CHAPTER FOUR: The Tragedy of Clarissa ; CHAPTER FIVE: The Dramatic Novel ; Notes ; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 125-[135])

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813163727

0813163722

OCLC:

644550215