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Theatre and the Novel, from Behn to Fielding (Paperback)
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Theatre and the Novel, from Behn to Fielding (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2015:07
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Ever since Ian Watt's The Rise of the novel (1957), many critics
have argued that a constitutive element of the early 'novel' is its
embrace of realism. Anne F. Widmayer contends, however, that
Restoration and early eighteenth-century prose narratives employ
techniques that distance the reading audience from an illusion of
reality; irony, hypocrisy, and characters who are knowingly acting
for an audience are privileged, highlighting the artificial and
false in fictional works. Focusing on the works of four celebrated
playwright-novelists, Widmayer explores how the increased
interiority of their prose characters is ridiculed by the use of
techniques drawn from the theatre to throw into doubt the novel's
ability to portray an unmediated 'reality'. Aphra Behn's dramatic
techniques question the reliability of female narrators, while
Delarivier Manley undermines the impact of women's passionate anger
by suggesting the self-consciousness of their performances. In his
later drama, William Congreve subverts the character of the
apparently objective critic that is recurrent in his prose work,
whilst Henry Fielding uses the figure of the satirical writer in
his rehearsal plays to mock the novelist's aspiration to control
the way a reader reads the text. Through analysing how these
writers satirize the reading public's desire for clear distinctions
between truth and illusion, Anne F. Widmayer also highlights the
equally fluid boundaries between prose fiction and drama.
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