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Institutions of the English Novel: From Defoe to Scott

Institutions of the English Novel: From Defoe to Scott

Brown, Homer Obed

Paperback

Series: Critical Authors and Issues

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0812216032
ISBN13: 9780812216035
Publisher: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
Published: May 1 1998
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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 fictional prose narratives of the preceding century were grouped together under that name.

After analyzing the figurative and thematic uses of private letters and social gossip in the constitution of the novel, Brown explores what was instituted in and by the fictions of Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, and Scott, with extensive discussion of the pivotal role Scott's work played in the novel's rise to institutional status. This study is an intriguing demonstration of how these earlier narratives are involved in the development and institution of such political and cultural concepts as self, personal identity, the family, and history, all of which contributed to the later possibility of the novel.

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