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Now a standard work on the subject, Popular Fiction before Richardson surveys the largely forgotten fiction from the first forty years of the eighteenth century. Issued for the first time in paperback with a new introduction by the author, this is a study of those narratives which were written and widely read in England, but which have been previously neglected by historians of the novel. Richetti makes no claims for these works as literary achievements--they are seen, rather, as vigorous and highly successful commercial exploitations of enduring stereotypes such as the criminal, the traveller-merchant, the persecuted maiden, and the aristocratic seducer. Setting them against the background of the age, the book accounts for the attractiveness of such figures and their characteristic adventures, and evaluates the importance of these narratives in providing a set of conventional and meaningful characters and situations for the mid eighteenth-century masters of the novel such as Richardson and Fielding.
Llegir més - ISBN13 9780198112631
- ISBN10 0198112637
- Pàgines 304
- Any Edició 1992
- Fecha de publicación 22/10/1992
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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Popular Fiction before Richardson: Narrative Patterns 1700-1739 (Alemany, Francès)
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- Oxford University Press (1992)
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