Partisan politics, narrative realism, and the rise of the British novel

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Label

Partisan politics, narrative realism, and the rise of the British novel

Statement of responsibility

Rachel Carnell

Creator

• Carnell, Rachel

Subject

• English fiction -- 17th century -- History and criticism
• English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• History
• Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• Politics in literature
• Political fiction, English -- History and criticism

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Narrative realism has long been understood as a full account of "real life" and the individual self. Breaking with this traditional history,Partisan Politics, Narrative Realism, and the Rise of the British Novel demonstrates that the formal conventions of narrative realism emerged at the end of the seventeenth century in response to an explosion of partisan writings that offered rival versions of political selfhood. The novel mediated between the competing Whig, Tory, and Jacobite versions of selfhood that emerged during the upheavals of the 1680s and flourished through the mid 1750s. The rise of the novel was connected to the rise of "the individual," as traditional accounts proposed, but this Whig individual was just one of several partisan versions of the self that were vying for pre-eminence during this period."--Publisher's website

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.509358

Index

index present

LC call number

PR858.P6

LC item number

C37 2006

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography