Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature /
This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narratology and eighteenth-century literature. It questions whether the general concepts of narratology are as such applicable to historically specific fields, or whether they need further specification. Furthe...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the place of narratology in the historical study of eighteenth-century literature
- The eighteenth-century challenge to narrative theory
- Formalism and historicity reconciled in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
- Perspective and focalization in eighteenth-century descriptions
- Temporality in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
- Temporality, subjectivity and the representation of characters in the eighteenth-century novel: from Defoe's Moll Flanders to Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
- Authorial narration reconsidered: Eliza Haywood's Betsy Thoughtless, Anonymous' Charlotte Summers, and the problem of authority in the mid-eighteenth-century novel
- Problems of tellability in German eighteenth-century criticism and novel-writing
- Immediacy: the function of embedded narratives in Wieland's Don Sylvio
- The tension between idea and narrative form: the example as a narrative structure in Enlightenment literature
- 'Speaking well of the dead': characterization in the early modern funeral sermon
- The use of paratext in popular eighteenth-century biography: the case of Edmund Curll
- Peritextual disposition in French eighteenth-century narratives.