03943cam a22003855i 4500 21968 21940 12645459 EG-ScBUE 20200305125608.0 020115t20021987mdu frb 001 0 eng d 0801869595 9780801869594 (OCoLC)ocm48876538 DLC eng rda DLC EG-ScBUE EG-ScBUE e-uk--- 823.009 MCK 22 McKeon, Michael, 1943- author. 40339 The origins of the English novel, 1600-1740 / Michael McKeon ; with a new introduction by the author. Fifteenth anniversary edition. Baltimore, Maryland : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2002] c2002 xxix, 529 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Originally published, 1987. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: dialectical method in literary history -- pt. 1. Questions of Truth: Chapter one,The destabilization of generic categories: "Romance" as a simple abstraction -- Precursor revolutions: the Greek Enlightenment -- Precursor revolutions: the twelfth-century renaissance -- Historicism and the historical revolution -- The claim to historicity -- Naive Empiricism and extreme skepticism -- Romance, antiromance, true history -- Chapter Two,The evidence of the senses: secularization and epistemological crisis: The contradictory unity of the new philosophy -- "Natural history" as a narrative model -- "Religion versus science" and the problem of mediation -- The literalizing of revelation -- Apparition narratives -- Chapter Three, Histories of the individual: From saint's life to spiritual biography -- From picaresque to criminal biography -- From Christian pilgrimmage to scientific travel -- The empirical style becomes problematic -- The emergence of extreme skepticism -- Toward realism, the aesthetic, and human creativity -- Pt. 2. Questions of virtue: Chapter Four, The destabilization of social categories: Aristocratic ideology -- Precursor revolutions: the Greek Enlightenment -- Precursor revolutions: the twelfth-century renaissance -- Progressive ideology and the transvaluation of honor -- The rise of the gentry -- From status to class -- The persistence of the aristocracy -- The formation of conservative ideology -- Understanding status inconsistency -- Chapter Five, Absolutism and capitalist ideology: the volatility of reform: The absolute prince absolutized -- Sword and robe -- Protestants and capitalists -- Evaluating human appetites -- Progressive ideology and conservative ideology -- Chapter Six, Stories of virtue: Novelistic narrative as historical explanation -- Historical models for progressive narratives -- Historical models for conservative narratives -- Ideological implications of generic models -- The gendering of ideology -- The conflation of truth and virtue -- pt. 3. The dialectical constitution of the novel: Chapter 7 Romance transformations (I): Cervantes and the disenchantment of the world -- Chapter 8 Romance transformations (II): Bunyan and the literalization of allegory -- Chapter 9 Parables of the younger son (I): Defoe and the naturalization of desire -- Chapter 10 Parables of the younger son (II): Swift and the containment of desire -- Chapter 11 The institutionalization of conflict (I): Richardson and the domestication of service -- Chapter 12 The institutionalization of conflict (II): fielding and the instrumentality of belief. English fiction Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. BUEsh 41331 English fiction 18th century History and criticism. BUEsh 41333 BUEsh HHUUEENN July2016 HHUUEENN October2016 HHUUEENN March2020 ddc BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2016-07-17 Purchase 423.00 25868 0 823.009 MCK 000032875 2025-07-15 00:00:00 529.00 NB Dr. Rania Khalil 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2016-10-05 Purchase 395.00 26103 2 23 823.009 MCK 000033497 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2018-10-16 494.00 2016-10-05 BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2020-03-05 Purchase 0 823.009 MCK 000048894 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2020-03-05 BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2021-05-19 Purchase 760.00 0 823.009 MCK 000050238 2025-07-15 00:00:00 950.00 2021-05-19 BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2021-05-19 Purchase 760.00 0 823.009 MCK 000050239 2025-07-15 00:00:00 950.00 2021-05-19 BB