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" The eighteenth century English novel / "
edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
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BL
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990618
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b744988
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| Title & Author
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The eighteenth century English novel /\ edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: Chelsea House,, ©2003.
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| Series Statement
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Bloom's period studies
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463 pages ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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0791078965
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: 9780791078969
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-418) and index.
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| Contents
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Sentiment from Afra Behn to Marivaux / James R. Foster -- Deserts, ruins and troubled waters : female dreams in fiction and the development of the gothic novel / Margaret Anne Doody -- The comic sublime and Sterne's fiction / Jonathan Lamb -- Fielding : the comic reality of fiction / Sheridan Baker -- Crime and adventure / Paula R. Backscheider -- An architect's imagination : the rise of Bath / Simon Varey -- The Job controversy, Sterne, and the question of allegory / Jonathan Lamb -- Fighting the Pharisees / Patrick Reilly -- Mythic and historic language in Smollett / John M. Warner -- The tested woman plot / Lois E. Bueler -- The Don Juan plot / Lois E. Bueler -- Caesar's toils : allusion and rebellion in Oroonoko / David E. Hoegberg -- Gulliver's travels and the contracts of fiction / Michael Seidel -- Serializing a self / Thomas Keymer.
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| Abstract
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A comprehensive view of the major literary movements in Western history - An introduction by Harold Bloom and a selection of critical essays provides scholarly analysis on the major writers and works that defined each literary period - Features a chronology of important cultural, literary, and political events that helped shape each literary period.
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English fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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English fiction.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.509
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PR853.E445 2003
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Bloom, Harold.
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