Eliza Haywood and the Languages of the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Contemporary historiography of the eighteenth-century novel has veered away from the hermeneutic of progress that characterised the field for a long time after the publication of Ian Watt’s foundational study of the genre. While twentieth-century scholarship on the “rise of the novel” was significa...

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הוצא לאור ב:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/1718,
מחבר ראשי: Smyth, Orla
פורמט: Article ou chapitre numérique
שפה:Anglais
יצא לאור: XVII-XVIII 2016
גישה מקוונת:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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סיכום:Contemporary historiography of the eighteenth-century novel has veered away from the hermeneutic of progress that characterised the field for a long time after the publication of Ian Watt’s foundational study of the genre. While twentieth-century scholarship on the “rise of the novel” was significantly more complex than eighteenth-century accounts of the transition from the romance to the novel, it was not difficult to identify substantial convergence between the two on key issues bearing on...