Popular fiction before Richardson : narrative patterns, 1700-1739 / by John J. Richetti.

A study of those narratives which were written and widely read in England during the first 40 years of the 18th century, but which have been hitherto neglected or despised by historians of the novel. They are seen here as highly successful commercial exploitations of enduring stereotypes.

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Main Author: Richetti, John J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Twenty Years On
  • I. Rise of the Novel Reconsidered
  • II. Rogues and Whores: Heroes and Anti-Heroes
  • III. Travellers, Pirates, and Pilgrims
  • (1). Pirate: Faustian Ruffian
  • (2). Crusoe and After
  • IV. 'As Long as Atalantis Shall be Read': The Scandal Chronicles of Mrs. Manley and Mrs. Haywood
  • V. Mrs. Haywood and the Novella
  • The Erotic and the Pathetic
  • VI. Novel as Pious Polemic
  • (1). Mrs. Aubin and Mrs. Barker
  • (2). Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe. Epilogue: The Relevance of the Unreadable.