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100	1		_aRichter, David H., _d1945- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aReading the eighteenth-century novel / _cDavid H. Richter.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aHoboken : _bJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc., _c2017.
300			_aviiii, 240 pages _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aReading the novel
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: Acknowledgments viii 1 The World That Made the Novel 1 2 Oroonoko (1688) 34 3 Moll Flanders (1722) 51 4 Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740) 66 5 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (1749) 81 6 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. (1759-1767) 100 7 Evelina: The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (1778) 117 8 The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) 131 9 Things As They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) 151 10 Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since (1814) 171 11 Emma (1815) 189 12 The World the Novel Made 213 Selected Further Reading 226 Index 000.
520			_a"This book about reading the English novel during the "long eighteenth century," a stretch of time that, in the generally accepted ways of breaking up British literary history into discrete periods for university courses, begins some time after the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 and ends around 1830, before the reign of Queen Victoria. At the beginning of this period, the novel can hardly be said to exist, and writing prose fiction is a mildly disreputable literary activity. Around 1720, Daniel Defoe's fictional autobiographies spark continuations and imitations, and in the 1740s, with Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding's novels begin what is perceived as "a new kind of writing." By the end of the period, with Jane Austen and Walter Scott, the novel has not only come into existence, it has developed into a more-or-less respectable genre, and in fact publishers have begun to issue series of novels (edited by Walter Scott and by Anna Barbauld, among others) that establish for that time, if not necessarily for ours, a canon of the English novel. With the decline of the English drama and the almost complete eclipse of the epic, the novel has become by default the serious literary long form, on its way to becoming by the mid-nineteenth century, with Dickens, Thackeray, and Eliot, the pre-eminent genre of literature. This chapter will consider how and why the novel came to be when it did"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		7	_aEnglish fiction _y18th century _xHistory and criticism. _2BUEsh
650		7	_aBooks and reading _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y18th century. _2BUEsh
653			_bGGEN _cJuly2020
655			_vReading book _934232
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aRichter, David H., 1945- author. _tReading the eighteenth-century novel _bFirst edition. _dHoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017 _z9781118621134 _w(DLC) 2017000756
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