In quest of the self : : masquerade and travel in the Eighteenth-Century novel : Fielding, Smollett, Sterne /

In quest of the self : : masquerade and travel in the Eighteenth-Century novel : Fielding, Smollett, Sterne / / Jakub Lipski.

In recent decades the masquerade has enjoyed a revival in literary and cultural studies. It has been seen as a symptom of the irrational trends permeating the Age of Reason and as a sign of the instability, arbitrariness as well as non-essentiality of personal identity; notions testifying to affinit...

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Superior document:Consciousness, literature & the arts, 42
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Lipski, Jakub.
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 42.
Physical Description:1 online resource (223 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • The Discourse of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
  • Fielding’s Travellers
  • The Masquerading World
  • Joseph and Tom in the Masquerading World
  • Smollett’s Travellers
  • Roderick’s and Peregrine’s Protean Identities
  • The Masquerading Protagonists
  • Tradition and Novelty in Yorick’s Journey
  • The Poetics of Mask and Sentiment
  • Yorick as a Polyphonic Character
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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