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  1. The Conversational Circle
    Rereading the English Novel, 1740-1775
    Author: Schellenberg, Betty
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington

    The Conversational Circle offers a model for exploring a range of novels that experiment with narrative patterns. It makes a compelling case that teleological approaches to novel history that privilege the conflict between the individual and society... more

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    Universität Mainz, Zentralbibliothek
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    The Conversational Circle offers a model for exploring a range of novels that experiment with narrative patterns. It makes a compelling case that teleological approaches to novel history that privilege the conflict between the individual and society are, quite simply, ahistorical. Twentieth-century historians of the early novel, most prominently Ian Watt, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Terry Castle, have canonized fictions that portray the individual in sustained tension with the social environment. Such fictions privilege a strongly linear structure. Recent reexaminations of the canon, however, have r...

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813119908; 9780813159072 (Sekundärausgabe)
    RVK Categories: HK 1274 ; HK 1301
    Subjects: Englisch; Roman
    Scope: 178 p.
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  2. The Conversational Circle
    Rereading the English Novel, 1740-1775
    Author: Schellenberg, Betty
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington

    The Conversational Circle offers a model for exploring a range of novels that experiment with narrative patterns. It makes a compelling case that teleological approaches to novel history that privilege the conflict between the individual and society... more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    The Conversational Circle offers a model for exploring a range of novels that experiment with narrative patterns. It makes a compelling case that teleological approaches to novel history that privilege the conflict between the individual and society are, quite simply, ahistorical. Twentieth-century historians of the early novel, most prominently Ian Watt, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Terry Castle, have canonized fictions that portray the individual in sustained tension with the social environment. Such fictions privilege a strongly linear structure. Recent reexaminations of the canon, however, have r

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813119908
    Scope: Online-Ressource (178 p)
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    Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Narrating Sociability in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England; 1. Consensus, the Conversational Circle, and Mid-Eighteenth-Century Fiction; CONSTRUCTING THE SOCIABLE SELF IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND; LANGUAGE, COMMERCE, AND CONVERSATION; CIRCULAR FORMS AND THE FICTIONS OF CONSENSUS; 2. Constructing the Circle in Sarah Fielding's David Simple; UNWRITING THE QUEST FOR FRIENDSHIP; CONSTRUCTING THE CONVERSATIONAL CIRCLE; A FOOL'S PARADISE?; CREATING AUTHORIAL SPACE

    3. Social Authority and the Domestic Circle in Samuel Richardson's Pamela Part IIPERFORMING IN A BOUNDED SPHERE: BEDFORDSHIRE; RESISTING THE PLOT OF CONFLICT: LONDON; TRANSCENDING THE DOMESTIC CIRCLE: ON THE ROAD AND IN THE NURSERY; 4. Socializing Desire and Radiating the Exemplary in Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison; THE PROBLEM OF FEMALE DESIRE AND ITS NARRATIVE MANIFESTATIONS; NARRATING THE FINE MAN, SOCIALIZING DESIRE; THE HERO AND THE EXPANSIVE DOMESTIC CIRCLE; THE HERO AS CIRCUMSCRIBER OF THE FEMININE; THE SELF-CONTRADICTIONS OF THE GENDERED CIRCLE

    THE READER IN THE EXPANSIVE CIRCLE5. Silencing the Center in Henry Fielding's Amelia; THE CIRCLE AND THE VORTEX; THE THREAT TO THE DOMESTIC CIRCLE; BOOTH AND DR. HARRISON AS CHOICE-MAKERS; SELF-NARRATION AND CONVERSATION; FROM REPETITION TO EQUILIBRIUM; 6. Authorizing the Marginalized Circle in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall; THE NATURE OF THE IDEAL COMMUNITY; THE FORM OF THE SOCIABLE NARRATIVE; ENDORSING THE FEMINIZED CIRCLE; UTOPIA LIMITED?1 7; 7. Mobilizing the Community, Immobilizing the Ideal in Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinke; THE GROUP AS O N E AND AS MANY; CONSENSUS AS ACQUIESCENCE

    A WIDE BUT EXCLUSIVE CIRCLEREORDERING THE GENDERED DOMESTIC ECONOMY; 8. Disembodying the Social Circle in Sarah Fielding's Volume the Las; THE EARNED AUTHORITY OF THE AUTHOR; DEATH BY INTERDEPENDENCE; INDIVIDUALISM; THE SELF-DESTRUCTION OF A COMMUNITY; REAFFIRMING AND DISPLACING THE IDEAL; Conclusion: A Failed Plot? The Fate of the Conversational Circle in English Fiction; Notes; Index