Historical Boundaries, Narrative Forms: Essays on British Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century in Honor of Everett ZimmermanUniversity of Delaware Press, 2007 - 268 páginas This collection of twelve essays by colleagues, students, and friends of Everett Zimmerman treats four topics that Zimmerman explored during his career: the representation of the self in narratives, the early British novel and related forms, their epistemological and generic borders, and their intellectual and cultural contexts. The collection is divided into two sections: Boundaries and Forms. The essays in Boundaries explore how epistemological and narrative distinctions between history and fiction meet or overlap in the novel's relationship to other forms, including providential history, travel narratives, uptopias, autobiography, and visual art. In Forms, the contributors investigate fictional, historical, and material forms; the impact those cultural phenomena had on the meaning and value attributed to literary works; and how such forms arose in response to historical conditions. The essays describe the historical range of Zimmerman's work, beginning with Defoe and ending with Coetzee, and treat such key writers of the long eighteenth century as Fielding, Richardson, Walpole, Austen, and Scott. Bakersfield. Robert Mayer is Professor of English and Director of the Screen Studies Program at Oklahoma State University. |
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... " a new paradise and the idealizations of utopias . " He contends that Crusoe's narrative of his struggles to respond to and understand the world in which he is mar- ooned " are part of the inward turn of the INTRODUCTION 11.
... " a new paradise and the idealizations of utopias . " He contends that Crusoe's narrative of his struggles to respond to and understand the world in which he is mar- ooned " are part of the inward turn of the INTRODUCTION 11.
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... turn of the form that eventually came to be known as the novel . " Treadwell Ruml compares Bishop Gilbert Burnett's autobiographical History of My Own Time ( published post- humously in 1724 and 1734 ) and the fiction of Henry Fielding ...
... turn of the form that eventually came to be known as the novel . " Treadwell Ruml compares Bishop Gilbert Burnett's autobiographical History of My Own Time ( published post- humously in 1724 and 1734 ) and the fiction of Henry Fielding ...
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... turning a frightening , eight - foot giant into a faithful and obedient friend and servant by cur- ing his toothache . The giant , who is scheduled to be shot in the morn- ing along with Van Pelham is so grateful that he bows down ...
... turning a frightening , eight - foot giant into a faithful and obedient friend and servant by cur- ing his toothache . The giant , who is scheduled to be shot in the morn- ing along with Van Pelham is so grateful that he bows down ...
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... Turning from ideas of a new Eden , I want now to consider the ways in which the Robinsonade differs from the classic utopia in the sense that Sir Thomas More constructed the model . More's utopia comes into being through a kind of ...
... Turning from ideas of a new Eden , I want now to consider the ways in which the Robinsonade differs from the classic utopia in the sense that Sir Thomas More constructed the model . More's utopia comes into being through a kind of ...
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... turn it into a European colony . This is not to say that there are not some ways in which the island serves as a kind of ideal and a mild satire upon contemporary Europe . Crusoe's isolation allows him time for contemplation of his ...
... turn it into a European colony . This is not to say that there are not some ways in which the island serves as a kind of ideal and a mild satire upon contemporary Europe . Crusoe's isolation allows him time for contemplation of his ...
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Creating the Privateer in A Cruising Voyage Round the World | 56 |
Crowd and Public in Defoes Moll Flanders | 73 |
The Immanent Image of History and Fiction | 87 |
Authors and Readers in Scotts Magnum Edition | 114 |
The History of Fables and Cultural History in England 16501750 | 141 |
Swifts Dark Materials | 164 |
A ShakespeareoPolitical Satire? | 184 |
Thomas Pennant Samuel Johnson and the Possibilities of Travel Narrative | 199 |
Sense Sensibility and the Picturesque | 215 |
Reading Foe | 225 |
Bibliography of the Works of Everett Zimmerman | 252 |
Notes on Contributors | 255 |
Index | 258 |
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Página 192 - I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.
Página 121 - For similar reasons, it may be in like manner said, that the most picturesque period of history is that when the ancient rough and wild manners of a barbarous age are just becoming innovated upon, and contrasted, by the illumination of increased or revived learning, and the instructions of renewed or reformed religion.
Página 170 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among...
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Página 38 - Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men deliver'd so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions, clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits,...
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Página 183 - But without Steddinesse, and Direction to some End, a great Fancy is one kind of Madnesse; such as they have, that entring into any discourse, are snatched from their purpose, by every thing that comes in their thought, into so many, and so long digressions, and Parentheses, that they utterly lose themselves: Which kind of folly, I know no particular name for...