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Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature /

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.…”
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Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature /

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.…”
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Persistence of Folly : On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature / by Lande, Joel B.

Subjects: “…Fools and jesters in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst00931266 155160…”
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Persistence of Folly : On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature / by Lande, Joel B.

Subjects: “…Fools and jesters in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst00931266…”
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Imperfect Creatures : Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740 / by Cole, Lucinda

Subjects: “…Science in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01108731…”
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Imperfect Creatures : Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740 / by Cole, Lucinda

Subjects: “…Science in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01108731…”
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Lake Methodism : Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780–1830 / by Cragwall, Jasper Albert, 1977-

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Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / by Bond, Erik

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Necessary Luxuries : Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 / by Erlin, Matt

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Lake Methodism : Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780–1830 / by Cragwall, Jasper Albert, 1977-

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Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / by Bond, Erik

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Necessary Luxuries : Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 / by Erlin, Matt

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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Imoinda's original shades : African women in British antislavery literature. Altering Oroonoko and Imoinda in mid-eighteenth century British drama ; Amelioration, African women, and the soft, strategic voice of paternal tyranny in 'The grateful negro' ; "Between the saints and the rebels" : Imoinda and the resurrection of the Black African heroine -- Part two. …”
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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Imoinda's original shades : African women in British antislavery literature. Altering Oroonoko and Imoinda in mid-eighteenth century British drama ; Amelioration, African women, and the soft, strategic voice of paternal tyranny in 'The grateful negro' ; "Between the saints and the rebels" : Imoinda and the resurrection of the Black African heroine -- Part two. …”
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Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives / by McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962-

Subjects: “…Vitalism in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01168147…”
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Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination : Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 / by Stroh, Silke

Table of Contents: “…The modern nation-state and its others : civilizing missions at home and abroad, ca. 1600 to 1800 -- ch. 2. Anglophone literature of civilization and the hybridized Gaelic subject : Martin Martin's travel writings -- ch. 3. …”
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Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives / by McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962-

Subjects: “…Vitalism in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01168147 176441…”
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Interrogating Orientalism : Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices /

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Bastards and Foundlings : Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England / by Zunshine, Lisa

Subjects: “…Parent and child in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01053343…”
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New World Courtships : Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage / by Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.

Subjects: “…Literature - General. hilcc…”
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