The Boundaries of Fiction : : History and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel / / Everett Zimmerman.
Focusing on canonical works by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, and others, this book explains the relationship between British fiction and historical writing when both were struggling to attain status and authority.History was at once powerful and vulnerable in the empiricist climate...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION. “Historical Faith”
- CHAPTER 1. Skeptical Historiography and the Constitution of the Novel
- CHAPTER 2. From Figura to Trace: Bunyan and Defoe
- CHAPTER 3. A Battle of Books: Swift’s Tale and Richardson’s Clarissa
- CHAPTER 4. The Machine of Narrative: Tom Jones and Caleb Williams
- CHAPTER 5. From Personal Identity to the Material Text: Sterne, Mackenzie, and Scott
- CHAPTER 6. Coda: Epistemology, Rhetoric, and Narrative: Historiography and the Fictional
- INDEX