Character Consciousness In Eighteenth Century Comic Fiction
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Character And Consciousness In Eighteenth Century Comic Fiction
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Author : Elizabeth Kraft
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Character And Consciousness In Eighteenth Century Comic Fiction written by Elizabeth Kraft and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Characters and characteristics in literature categories.
Character Consciousness In Eighteenth Century Comic Fiction
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Author : Elizabeth Kraft
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1992
Character Consciousness In Eighteenth Century Comic Fiction written by Elizabeth Kraft and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
The eighteenth-century novel developed amid an emerging emphasis on individualism that clashed with long-cherished beliefs in hierarchy and stability. Though the comic novelists, unlike Defoe and Richardson, avoided total involvement in the mind of any one character, they were nonetheless fundamentally concerned with the nature of consciousness. In Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction, Elizabeth Kraft examines the kind of consciousness central to comic novels of the period. It is, she asserts, individual identity conceived in social terms--a character's search for his or her place in a precarious secular order. Understanding this concept of character is vitally important to a full appreciation of eighteenth-century comic fiction. To respond validly to these fictional characters, Kraft claims, the twentieth-century reader must recapture, or recreate, the eighteenth-century self. In readings of five novels--Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Tobias Smollett's Peregrine Pickle, and Fanny Burney's Cecilia--Kraft explores the relationships among consciousness, character, and comic narrative. Fielding, Lennox, and Sterne, she argues, question the validity of narratives of consciousness. Each seeks to define the limitations as well as the virtues of the form in representing the individual and communal lives. Smollett and Burney, on the other hand, address a readership that expects the novel to offer meaningful renderings of person experience. These novelists accept the validity of the narrative of consciousness but place this narrative within the context of the larger community. As a thorough analysis of relations between narrative and the construction of character and consciousness, Kraft's study is an important addition to our understanding of the theoretical formulations of eighteenth-century fiction.
Female Playwrights And Eighteenth Century Comedy
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Author : M. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2002-02-22
Female Playwrights And Eighteenth Century Comedy written by M. Anderson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02-22 with Performing Arts categories.
Aphra Behn, Susannah Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald were the only four female playwrights in England with multiple comic successes from 1670-1800. Behn's interest in the body, Centlivre's fascination with written contracts, Cowley's nationalism, and Inchbald's discussion of divorce emerge in the comic events that are animated by the psychological mechanisms of humor. Attending to the dialogue between these comic events and the plays' more predictable comic endings illuminates the philosophical, political, and legal arguments about women and marriage that fascinated both female playwrights and the theatergoing public.
Shakespeare And The Eighteenth Century Novel
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Author : Kate Rumbold
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-08
Shakespeare And The Eighteenth Century Novel written by Kate Rumbold and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-08 with Drama categories.
Explores the significant presence of Shakespeare in major novels of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.
The Discourse Of The Mind In Eighteenth Century Fiction
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Author : John Dussinger
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-11-02
The Discourse Of The Mind In Eighteenth Century Fiction written by John Dussinger and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Lyric Generations
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Author : G. Gabrielle Starr
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2015-11-01
Lyric Generations written by G. Gabrielle Starr and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Eighteenth-century British literary history was long characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movements—the emergence of the novel and the development of Romantic lyric poetry. In fact, recent scholarship reveals that these genres are inextricably bound: constructions of interiority developed in novels changed ideas about what literature could mean and do, encouraging the new focus on private experience and self-perception developed in lyric poetry. In Lyric Generations, Gabrielle Starr rejects the genealogy of lyric poetry in which Romantic poets are thought to have built solely and directly upon the works of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. She argues instead that novelists such as Richardson, Haywood, Behn, and others, while drawing upon earlier lyric conventions, ushered in a new language of self-expression and community which profoundly affected the aesthetic goals of lyric poets. Examining the works of Cowper, Smith, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats in light of their competitive dialogue with the novel, Starr advances a literary history that considers formal characteristics as products of historical change. In a world increasingly defined by prose, poets adapted the new forms, characters, and moral themes of the novel in order to reinvigorate poetic practice.
A Cultural History Of Comedy In The Age Of Enlightenment
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Author : Elizabeth Kraft
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-12-30
A Cultural History Of Comedy In The Age Of Enlightenment written by Elizabeth Kraft and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-30 with History categories.
This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlightenment. It argues that comedy in this period is characterized by wit, satire, and humor, provoking both laughter and sympathetic tears. Comic expression in the Enlightenment reflects continuities and engagements with the comedy of previous eras; it is also noted for new forms and preoccupations engendered by the cultural, philosophical, and political concerns of the time, including democratizing revolutions, increasing secularization, and growing emphasis on individualism. Discussions emphasize the period's stage comedy and acknowledge comic expression in various forms of print media including the emerging literary form we now know as the novel. Contributions from scholars reflect a wide variety of interests in the field of 18th-century studies, and the inclusion of a generous number of illustrations throughout demonstrates that the period's visual culture was also an important part of the Enlightenment comic landscape. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identities, the body, politics and power, laughter and ethics. These eight different approaches to Enlightenment comedy add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject.
The Epistolary Novel
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Author : Joe Bray
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-08-29
The Epistolary Novel written by Joe Bray and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way that the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel. Critics have drawn a distinction between the self at the time of writing and the self at the time at which events or emotions were experienced. This book demonstrates that the tensions within consciousness are the result of a continual interaction between the two selves of the letter-writer and charts the oscillation between these two selves in the epistolary novels of, amongst others, Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Fanny Burney and Charlotte Smith.
Hilarion S Asse
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Author : Anne Bandry-Scubbi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-11
Hilarion S Asse written by Anne Bandry-Scubbi and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
The humour of Tristram Shandy has often been acknowledged, but it is not easy to find scholarly articles on Laurence Sterne which suggest that their authors laughed as they wrote. Nine authors have been invited to redress this in the year of the tercentenary of Sterne’s birth. This volume offers nine different facets of humour, a kaleidoscope which enables readers to recombine at will the genial, the bawdy, the sentimental, the ludicrous, the hobby-horsical, the philosophical, the irreverent, the incongruous and the facetious, sending the text spiralling out of the page.
Adaptations Of Laurence Sterne S Fiction
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Author : Mary-Celine Newbould
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-23
Adaptations Of Laurence Sterne S Fiction written by Mary-Celine Newbould and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Exploring how readers received and responded to literary works in the long eighteenth century, M-C. Newbould focuses on the role played by Laurence Sterne’s fiction and its adaptations. Literary adaptation flourished throughout the eighteenth century, encouraging an interactive relationship between writers, readers, and artists when well-known works were transformed into new forms across a variety of media. Laurence Sterne offers a particularly dynamic subject: the immense interest provoked by The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy inspired an unrivalled number and range of adaptations from their initial publication onwards. In placing her examination of Sterneana within the context of its production, Newbould demonstrates how literary adaptation operates across generic and formal boundaries. She breaks new ground by bringing together several potentially disparate aspects of Sterneana belonging to areas of literary studies that include drama, music, travel writing, sentimental fiction and the visual. Her study is a vital resource for Sterne scholars and for readers generally interested in cultural productivity in this period.