Systems of order and inquiry in later eighteenth-century fiction / Eric Rothstein
1975, First Edition. Berkeley : University of California Press. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #407518
ISBN: 0520368169
Physical description: 274 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: [1.] Rasselas: Modifications and analogies -- The blueprint of Rasselas -- The journey to Theodicy -- Postscript -- [2.] Tristram shandy: Personal eye, familial myself -- Episodes and volumes -- [3.] Humphry Clinker: The armature of characters -- The fabric of Humphry Clinker -- [4.] Amelia: The epistemology of a veiled world -- Booth's system (books I-VII) -- The widening view (books VII-XII) -- [5.] Caleb Williams: History into romance -- Romance into history -- A conclusion in which everything and nothing is concluded -- [6.] The historical hypothesis. Subjects: English fiction 18th century History and criticism; Order (Philosophy) in literature; Inquiry (Theory of knowledge); Fiction in English, 1745-1800 Critical studies; Fiction in English 1745-1800; English Fiction History & Criticism 18th c.
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