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Loading... The Conversational Circle: Rereading the English Novel, 1740-1775by Betty Schellenberg
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The Conversational Circle offers a model for exploring a range of novels that experiment with narrative patterns. It makes a compelling case that teleological approaches to novel history that privilege the conflict between the individual and society are, quite simply, ahistorical. Twentieth-century historians of the early novel, most prominently Ian Watt, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Terry Castle, have canonized fictions that portray the individual in sustained tension with the social environment. Such fictions privilege a strongly linear structure. Recent reexaminations of the canon, however, have r No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.509355Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Queen Anne 1702-45LC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |