Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature

book: Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2017

Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature

Edited by: Liisa Steinby and Aino Mäkikalli

Volume 7 in the series Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048527380

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The essays take on aspects of eighteenth-century texts such as plot, genre, character, perspective, temporality, and more, coming at them from both a narratological and a historical perspective.

Author / Editor information

Steinby Liisa :

Liisa Steinby has published two volumes in eighteenth-century German literature a monograph and co-edited a collection of essays on Daniel Defoe. The contributors comprise a number of the most eminent scholars in the field of the study of eighteenth-century literature and narrative theory, such as Michael McKeon, John Richetti, Pat Rogers and Monika Fludernik.Mäkikalli Aino :

Aino Mäkikalli has published a monograph and co-edited a collection of essays on Daniel Defoe. The contributors comprise a number of the most eminent scholars in the field of the study of eighteenth-century literature and narrative theory, such as Michael McKeon, John Richetti, Pat Rogers and Monika Fludernik.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Introduction The Place of Narratology in the Historical Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature Liisa Steinby and Aino Mäkikalli Open Access Download PDF	7
The Eighteenth-Century Challenge to Narrative Theory Michael McKeon Open Access Download PDF	39
Formalism and Historicity Reconciled in Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones John Richetti Open Access Download PDF	79
Perspective and Focalization in Eighteenth-Century Descriptions Monika Fludernik Open Access Download PDF	99
Temporality in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe Aino Mäkikalli Open Access Download PDF	121
Temporality, Subjectivity and the Representation of Characters in the Eighteenth-Century Novel From Defoe’s Moll Flanders to Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre Liisa Steinby Open Access Download PDF	135
Authorial Narration Reconsidered Eliza Haywood’s Betsy Thoughtless, Anonymous’ Charlotte Summers, and the Problem of Authority in the Mid- Eighteenth-Century Novel Dorothee Birke Open Access Download PDF	161
Problems of Tellability in German Eighteenth-Century Criticism and Novel-Writing Karin Kukkonen Open Access Download PDF	177
Immediacy The Function of Embedded Narratives in Wieland’s Don Sylvio Claudia Nitschke Open Access Download PDF	199
The Tension between Idea and Narrative Form The Example as a Narrative Structure in Enlightenment Literature Christine Waldschmidt Open Access Download PDF	225
‘Speaking Well of the Dead’ Characterization in the Early Modern Funeral Sermon Penny Pritchard Open Access Download PDF	249
The Use of Paratext in Popular Eighteenth-Century Biography The Case of Edmund Curll Pat Rogers Open Access Download PDF	269
Peritextual Disposition in French Eighteenth-Century Narratives Teemu Ikonen Open Access Download PDF	289
List of Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	309
Index Open Access Download PDF	311

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 4
- Other: 4 halftones
Keywords: eighteenth-century literature; narrative theory; historical narratology

eBook

Published: March 28, 2017
ISBN: 9789048527380