Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684–1750University of California Press, 10/09/1998 - 325 páginas Novels have been a respectable component of culture for so long that it is difficult for twentieth-century observers to grasp the unease produced by novel reading in the eighteenth century. William Warner shows how the earliest novels in Britain, published in small-format print media, provoked early instances of the modern anxiety about the effects of new media on consumers. Warner uncovers a buried and neglected history of the way in which the idea of the novel was shaped in response to a newly vigorous market in popular narratives. In order to rein in the sexy and egotistical novel of amorous intrigue, novelists and critics redefined the novel as morally respectable, largely masculine in authorship, national in character, realistic in its claims, and finally, literary. Warner considers early novelists in their role as entertainers and media workers, and shows how the short, erotic, plot-driven novels written by Behn, Manley, and Haywood came to be absorbed and overwritten by the popular novels of Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding. Considering these novels as entertainment as well as literature, Warner traces a different story—one that redefines the terms within which the British novel is to be understood and replaces the literary history of the rise of the novel with a more inclusive cultural history. |
Índice
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Behns Love Letters | 45 |
Manleys | 88 |
The Antinovel Discourse and Rewriting Reading in Roxana | 128 |
The Pamela Media Event | 176 |
Joseph Andrews as Performative Entertainment | 231 |
The Freedom of Readers | 277 |
Chronology of the Pamela Media Event | 295 |
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Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684–1750 William B. Warner Pré-visualização limitada - 1998 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
action Adams Adventures amorous intrigue Amours antinovel discourse Aphra Behn appears Atalantis Aubin becomes Behn's body bookseller Briljard century chapter character Charlot claims Clarissa critical critique dangerous debate Defoe Defoe's describes desire developed disguise duke early modern early novel edition effect eighteenth eighteenth-century elevated novel Eliza Haywood English Novel erotic essay example feminist Fielding's formula fiction French gender Haywood Henry Fielding heroine Joseph Andrews Lady Licensing Entertainment literary history Love in Excess Love Letters lovers Manley Manley's media culture Melliora moral narrative narrator novel reading novel's rise novelistic novels of amorous novels of Behn object Octavio offers Pamela media event passion Penelope Aubin performance Philander Philander's pleasure plot political popular print market produces reading practices realist reform resistance Richardson and Fielding role Roxana Samuel Richardson scene seduction sexual Shamela social story suggests Susan tion Tom Jones University Press virtue women writing young