Institutions of the English Novel : : From Defoe to Scott / / Homer Obed Brown.
In Institutions of the English Novel, Homer Obed Brown takes issue with the generally accepted origin of the novel in the early eighteenth century. Brown argues that what we now call the novel did not appear as a recognized single "genre" until the early nineteenth century, when the fictio...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©1997 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical Authors and Issues
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Beginning with No Beginning
- 1. The Errant Letter and the Whispering Gallery
- 2. The Displaced Self in the Novels of Daniel Defoe
- 3. Tom Jones: The "Bastard" of History
- 4. Tristram to the Hebrews: Some Notes on the Institution of a Canonic Text
- 5. Sir Walter Scott and the Institution of History: The Jacobite Novels in the Relation of Fathers
- 6. The Institution of the English Novel
- Notes
- Index