Before Novels

Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction

By: Paul J. Hunter

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Paperback | 1 August 1994 | Edition Number 1

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What did people read before there were novels? Not necessarily just other literary works, according to this fascinating study of the beginnings of the English novel. To understand the origins of the novel as a species and to read individual novels well, we must know several pasts and traditions—even non-fictional and non-narrative traditions, even non- artistic and non-written pasts—that at first might seem far removed from the pleasures readers find in modern novels.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1500 to 1800 Literary Studies of Fiction Science Science in General Language & Linguistics Reference, Dictionaries & Guides

Preface	p. ix
What Was New about the Novel?	p. 3
Novels and "The Novel": The Critical Tyranny of Formal Definition	p. 29
Readers Reading	p. 61
Looking Forward: Time	p. 89
Looking Forward: Place	p. 110
Looking Backward: a World Well Lost?	p. 138
Journalism: The Commitment to Contemporaneity	p. 167
Strange, but True: Fact, Certainty, and the Desire for Wonder	p. 195
Didacticism: The Biases of Presentism and the Question of Pleasure	p. 225
Directions of Didacticism: The Guide Tradition	p. 248
Didacticism: The Contexts of Concern	p. 274
The Self and the World.: Private Histories	p. 303
The Self Observed: Private Vices, Public Benefits	p. 324
The Self in the World: History, Biography, and Travel Books	p. 338
Notes	p. 357
Index	p. 405
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