Book description
CONTENTS:
PART 1 – MODELS AND BEGINNINGS
1. Generic Tranformation and Social Change: Rethinking the Rise of the Novel
2. The Elevation of the Novel in England: Hegemony and Literary History
3. Popular Narrative in the Early Eighteenth Century: Formats and Formulas
4. The Novel and the Rise of the Penitentiary: Narrative and Ideology in Defoe, Gay, Hogarth and Fielding
5. The Carnivalization of Eighteenth-Century English Narrative
PART 2 – DEFOE
6. The Displaced Self in the Novels of Daniel Defoe
7. Crusoe’s Island Exile
PART 3 – RICHARDSON
8. Strategies of Self-Production: Pamela
9. Revelation of the Heart through Entrapment and Trial
PART 4 – FIELDING
10. "The Exact Picture of His Mother": Recognizing Joseph Andrews
