Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature / edited by Liisa Steinby and Aino Mäkikalli.

• Superior document: Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies ; 7.
• TeilnehmendeR: Mäkikalli, Aino,; Steinby, Liisa,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies ; 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 pages).; digital file(s).

This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narrative and eighteenth-century literature from across Europe. At issue is the question of whether the theoretical concepts underpinning narratology are, despite their appearance of ahistorical generality, act...

Table of Contents

• Introduction : the place of narratology in the historical study of eighteenth-century literature
• The eighteenth-century challenge to narrative theory
• Formalism and historicity reconciled in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
• Perspective and focalization in eighteenth-century descriptions
• Temporality in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
• Temporality, subjectivity and the representation of characters in the eighteenth-century novel: from Defoe's Moll Flanders to Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
• Authorial narration reconsidered: Eliza Haywood's Betsy Thoughtless, Anonymous' Charlotte Summers, and the problem of authority in the mid-eighteenth-century novel
• Problems of tellability in German eighteenth-century criticism and novel-writing
• Immediacy: the function of embedded narratives in Wieland's Don Sylvio
• The tension between idea and narrative form: the example as a narrative structure in Enlightenment literature
• 'Speaking well of the dead': characterization in the early modern funeral sermon
• The use of paratext in popular eighteenth-century biography: the case of Edmund Curll
• Peritextual disposition in French eighteenth-century narratives.