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In quest of the self : masquerade and travel in the Eighteenth-Century novel : Fielding, Smollett, Sterne / Jakub Lipski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lipski, Jakub.
- Series:
- Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 42.
- Consciousness, literature & the arts, 1573-2193 ; 42
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754--Criticism and interpretation.
- Fielding, Henry.
- Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771--Criticism and interpretation.
- Smollett, T.
- Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
- Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Literature and society--History--18th century.
- Literature and society.
- Masquerades--Great Britain.
- Masquerades.
- Travelers--England--History--18th century.
- Travelers.
- Manners and customs.
- Masquerades in literature.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- England.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 pages).
- Other Title:
- Masquerade and travel in the Eighteenth-Century novel : Fielding, Smollett, Sterne
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2014.
- Summary:
- In recent decades the masquerade has enjoyed a revival in literary and cultural studies. It has been seen as a symptom of the irrational trends permeating the Age of Reason and as a sign of the instability, arbitrariness as well as non-essentiality of personal identity; notions testifying to affinities between the eighteenth century and our own time. In Quest of the Self offers a new consideration not only of the masquerade as such, but also of the ways in which it was transposed into literature during the period. Here it emerges as a dominant trope governing the poetics and the ideological dimensions of selected eighteenth-century novels by Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett and Laurence Sterne. Throughout, the book demonstrates that the travelling protagonists of the novels, metaphorically speaking, take part in the ‘masquerade of the world’, finding themselves in quest of their own selves and struggling to determine who they really are.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- The Discourse of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
- Fielding’s Travellers
- The Masquerading World
- Joseph and Tom in the Masquerading World
- Smollett’s Travellers
- Roderick’s and Peregrine’s Protean Identities
- The Masquerading Protagonists
- Tradition and Novelty in Yorick’s Journey
- The Poetics of Mask and Sentiment
- Yorick as a Polyphonic Character
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 94-012-1172-8
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789401211727 DOI
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