The Conversational Circle: Rereading the English Novel, 1740-1775

by Betty A. Schellenberg

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" The Conversational Circle offers a model for exploring a range of novels that experiment with narrative patterns. It makes a compelling case that teleological approaches to novel history that privilege the conflict between the individual and society are, quite simply, ahistorical. Twentieth-century historians of the early novel, most prominently Ian Watt, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Terry Castle, have canonized fictions that portray the individual in sustained tension with the social environment. Suc

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0813119901

ISBN13:9780813119908

Release Date:November 1996

Publisher:University Press of Kentucky

Length:176 Pages

Weight:1.16 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory Education & Reference History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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