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In this study intended for general readers, eminent critic Patricia Meyer Spacks provides a fresh, engaging account of the early history of the English novel. __Novel Beginnings__ departs from the traditional, narrow focus on the development of the realistic novel to emphasize the many kinds of experimentation that marked the genre in the eighteenth century before its conventions were firmly established in the nineteenth. Treating well-known works like __Tom Jones__ and __Tristram Shandy__ in conjunction with less familiar texts such as Sarah Fielding’s __The Cry__ (a kind of hybrid novel and play) and Jane Barker’s __A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies__ (a novel of adventure replete with sentimental verse and numerous subnarratives), the book evokes the excitement of a multifaceted and unpredictable process of growth and change. Investigating fiction throughout the 1700s, Spacks delineates the individuality of specific texts while suggesting connections among novels. She sketches a wide range of forms and themes, including Providential narratives, psychological thrillers, romans à clef, sentimental parables, political allegories, Gothic romances, and many others. These multiple na
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- Author
- Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781281721969
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, Literary Criticism
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