| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 246 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 33
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Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 33.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"This new study of the origins of the English novel argues that the novel emerged from historical writing. Examining historical writers and forms frequently neglected by earlier scholars, Robert Mayer shows that in the seventeenth century historical discourse embraced not only "history" in its modern sense, but also fiction, polemic, gossip, and marvels. Mayer thus explains why Defoe's narratives were initially read as history. It is the acceptance of the claims to historicity, the study argues, that differentiates Defoes fictions from those of writers like Thomas Deloney and Aphra Behn, important writers who nevertheless have figured less prominently than Defoe in discussions of the novel. Mayer ends by exploring the theoretical implications of the history-fiction connection. His study makes an important contribution to the continuing debate about the emergence of what we now call the novel in Britain in the eighteenth century."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- Knowledge and learning -- History.
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Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. |
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History. |
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Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 -- Influence.
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Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. |
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Bacon, Francis, Viscount St. Albans, 1561-1626 -- Influence. |
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English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Literature and history. |
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Great Britain. |
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Historical fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Historical fiction, English. |
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1700-1799 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mayer, Robert, 1948- History and the early English novel. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1997 0521563771 (DLC) 96009608 (OCoLC)34989949 |
| ISBN |
0585131090 (electronic book) |
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9780585131092 (electronic book) |
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9780511000881 (electronic book) |
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051100088X (electronic book) |
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9780521563772 |
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0521563771 |
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