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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Eighteenth-century novel"”.
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Anti-Catholicism in the Eighteenth Century Novel
… in England abounds for the eras surrounding the eighteenth century, but for the eighteenth century itself, it remains limited. Of the research that does examine this period, the majority concerning literature pinpoints satire, poetry, sermons, and treatises as the key literary products and/or …
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Beginning's ends : new senses of ending and the eighteenth-century novel
… endings in both canonized and forgotten eighteenth-century prose fiction contributes to our understanding of the early novel. When endings have been discussed in previous scholarship, it has usually been to show how they fit into (or deviate from) a set of expectations about what a novel …
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Blending Birth and Behavior: Masculine Representations of Patriarchy and Capitalism in the Eighteenth-Century Novel of Manners
Out of England’s turbulent and transitional eighteenth century emerged a new literary genre that sought to reestablish a sense of social order by indoctrinating the average citizen with codes of politeness and morality. With its distinctly didactic tone, the novel grew increasingly popular, …
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Dreaming in whispering groves: an inquiry into the reader's response to the book as a published physical object with reference to the rise of the eighteenth century novel, modern critical theory and the processes and technologies of production, transmission and reception
… book-as-object with specific reference to nine eighteenth century novels over four centuries: Robinson Crusoe; The Adventures Of The Count de Vinevil; Pamela; David Simple; Amelia; Betsy Thoughtless; Evelina; The Monk and The Italian. I examine the relationship between the reader, the …
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Hotel archiphilia
Jean-Francois de Bastide's mid-eighteenth century novel, The Little House, describes an erotic encounter between a persistent man, and a reluctant woman. More remarkably, the novel introduces a third character, the estate where the seduction takes place. The house not only serves as setting, but as …
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Cunning Authors and Bad Readers: Gendered Authorship in "Love in Excess"
Although the works of eighteenth-century novelist Eliza Haywood have attracted scholarly attention in the past several decades, the number of thorough analyses of her individual works remains low. This thesis aims to help fill this gap by providing a close reading of Haywood’s first novel, Love in …
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Equal Ardor: Female Desire, Amatory Fiction, and the Recasting of the Novel, 1680--1760
… fiction in shaping the development of the eighteenth-century novel by arguing for the importance and persistence of the amatory heroine, a character who challenges the notion that female novelistic subjectivity must be based on absolute sexual virtue. By placing novels by Aphra Behn and …
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Healthy debate: medical discourses in the early novel
… the light of different views about how the early novel was distinct as a literary form, this thesis draws on those ideas that emphasise the novel’s capacity to formulate and address issues of major concern to a broad section of eighteenth-century society. Modern experience was shaped by new …
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J.M.Coetzee and the Novel: A Return to the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Novel
Scholars argue that Coetzee’s novels critique and disavow the origins and legacy of the novel tradition and its influence on the contemporary novel. They also claim that J.M. Coetzee’s novels herald in the demise of the contemporary novel. These interpretations are motivated by the political …
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Mary, Quite Contrary: The Novels of Mary Davys, 1700–1727
… yet rare mention is made of her first three novels. Moreover, of her later novels, many scholars read them as socially conservative and as representations of Davys’s support of and belief in patriarchy. My project disproves the long-standing and generally agreed upon conceptions regarding …