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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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