The Novel Stage : : Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen /

The Novel Stage : : Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen / / Marcie Frank.

2020 Choice​ Outstanding Academic Title Marcie Frank’s study traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a dramatic new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the no...

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Frank, Marcie,
Place / Publishing House:Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
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Physical Description:1 online resource (229 p.) :; 3 B-W photograph & 2 Color photograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1. Genre, Media, and the Theory of the Novel
  • 2. The Reform of the Rake from Rochester to Inchbald
  • 3. Performing Reading in Richardson and Fielding
  • 4. The Promise of Embarrassment: Frances Burney’s Theater of Shame
  • 5. Melodrama in Inchbald and Austen
  • Coda: The Melodramatic Address
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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