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Novel Beginnings - Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (Hardcover)
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Novel Beginnings - Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Yale Guides to English Literature
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A celebratory history and appreciation of the varied, wildly
experimental nature of fiction in eighteenth-century England In
this study intended for general readers, eminent critic Patricia
Meyer Spacks provides a fresh, engaging account of the early
history of the English novel. Novel Beginnings departs from the
traditional, narrow focus on the development of the realistic novel
to emphasize the many kinds of experimentation that marked the
genre in the eighteenth century before its conventions were firmly
established in the nineteenth. Treating well-known works like Tom
Jones and Tristram Shandy in conjunction with less familiar texts
such as Sarah Fielding's The Cry (a kind of hybrid novel and play)
and Jane Barker's A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies (a novel of
adventure replete with sentimental verse and numerous
subnarratives), the book evokes the excitement of a multifaceted
and unpredictable process of growth and change. Investigating
fiction throughout the 1700s, Spacks delineates the individuality
of specific texts while suggesting connections among novels. She
sketches a wide range of forms and themes, including Providential
narratives, psychological thrillers, romans a clef, sentimental
parables, political allegories, Gothic romances, and many others.
These multiple narrative experiments show the impossibility of
thinking of eighteenth-century fiction simply as a precursor to the
nineteenth-century novel, Spacks shows. Instead, the vast variety
of engagements with the problems of creating fiction demonstrates
that literary history-by no means inexorable-might have taken quite
a different course.
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