The Epistolary Novel : Representations of Consciousness
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| Title: | The Epistolary Novel : Representations of Consciousness |
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| Description: | The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way that the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel. Critics have drawn a distinction between the self at the time of writing and the self at the time at which events or emotions were experienced. This book demonstrates that the tensions within consciousness are the result of a continual interaction between the two selves of the letter-writer and charts the oscillation between these two selves in the epistolary novels of, amongst others, Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Fanny Burney and Charlotte Smith. |
| Authors: | Joe Bray |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Epistolary fiction, English--History and criticism, English fiction--18th century--History and criticism, Consciousness in literature |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way that the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel. Critics have drawn a distinction between the self at the time of writing and the self at the time at which events or emotions were experienced. This book demonstrates that the tensions within consciousness are the result of a continual interaction between the two selves of the letter-writer and charts the oscillation between these two selves in the epistolary novels of, amongst others, Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Fanny Burney and Charlotte Smith. |
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| ISBN: | 9780203351512 9780415306102 9781138008724 9781134402540 9781134402533 9781134402519 9780203130575 |
