Misfit forms : paths not taken by the British novel

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Misfit forms : paths not taken by the British novel

Title remainder

paths not taken by the British novel

Statement of responsibility

Lorri G. Nandrea

Creator

• Nandrea, Lorri G

Author

• Nandrea, Lorri G

Subject

• English fiction
• English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory
• 1700-1899
• Sensitivity (Personality trait) in literature
• Sympathy in literature
• Sympathy in literature
• Sensitivity (Personality trait) in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

'Misfit Forms' re-interprets a series of choices that shaped the development of the British novel. Histories of the novel often situate the early nineteenth century as a culminating moment in the novel's 'rise'. However, a look at the complicated junctions negotiated by the novel during the eighteenth century reveals not only achievements but also exclusions - paths less travelled. Pairing readings of novels by Defoe, Sterne, Gaskell, Hardy, and Charlotte Brontë with less familiar texts, including printer's manuals and grammar treatises, each chapter brings out an occluded mode

Cataloging source

E7B

Dewey number

823/.509

Index

index present

LC call number

PR851

LC item number

.N36 2015eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography