Institutions of the English novel from Defoe to Scott /
In Institutions of the English Novel, Homer Obed Brown takes issue with the generally accepted origin of the novel in the early eighteenth century. Brown argues that what we now call the novel did not appear as a recognized single "genre" until the early nineteenth century, when the fictio...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1997
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Critical Authors and Issues
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Beginning with No Beginning
- 1. The Errant Letter and the Whispering Gallery
- 2. The Displaced Self in the Novels of Daniel Defoe
- 3. Tom Jones: The "Bastard" of History
- 4. Tristram to the Hebrews: Some Notes on the Institution of a Canonic Text
- 5. Sir Walter Scott and the Institution of History: The Jacobite Novels in the Relation of Fathers
- 6. The Institution of the English Novel
- Notes
- Index