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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"early novel"”.
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Healthy debate: medical discourses in the early novel
In 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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Beginning's ends : new senses of ending and the eighteenth-century novel
… 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 ending looks like. The assumptions about where these expectations come …
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Casuistical Connections from Dunton to Defoe
… conditions of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England that encouraged the emergence of periodical literature and perpetuated the birth of the novel. While most connections between periodical literature and the novel are made on how the former created the readership that …
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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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Romantic Citation and the Receding Future
… his corpus’s dark ground in the form of his early novel St. Irvyne and his other early Gothic texts that shadow his corpus with the specter of its exhaustion. And in chapter 4, Blake’s Jerusalem ends (Blake’s) history by re-citing his earlier works as if they were engines of apocalypse …
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Equal Ardor: Female Desire, Amatory Fiction, and the Recasting of the Novel, 1680--1760
… 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 Eliza Haywood at the …
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The house in South Asian Muslim women’s early anglophone life-writing and novels
… residential forms, and historic sites in the early Anglophone writing of South Asian Muslim women. Reading the memoirs of Pakistani diplomat Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, <em>From Purdah to Parliament</em> (1963), in conjunction with three early Anglophone novels, namely, <em>Zeenuth …
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La quebrada y la costa peruanas en voces narrativas a mediados del siglo XX: María Rosa Macedo y Sara María Larrabure
… Larrabure (1921-1962), wrote an unparalleled novel: respectively, <em>Rastrojo </em>(1944) and <em>Rioancho </em>(1949). Their primary and complementary narratives overlap in the sociocultural, historical and political context of the first half of 20<sup>th</sup>-century Peru. This study …