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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20628474 Title: Before novels : the cultural contexts of eighteenth-century English fiction Author: J Paul Hunter Publisher: New York : Norton, ©1990. ISBN/ISSN: 0393028011 9780393028010 0393308618 9780393308617 OCLC:20628474

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Before novels : the cultural contexts of eighteenth-century English fiction

Author:	J Paul Hunter
Publisher:	New York : Norton, ©1990.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form:	Historia
Document Type:	Book
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ISBN:	0393028011 9780393028010 0393308618 9780393308617
OCLC Number:	20628474
Description:	xxiv, 421 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents:	Pt. I: Texts -- What was new about the novel? -- Novels and "the novel": the critical tyranny of formal definition -- Pt. II: Contexts -- Readers reading -- Looking forward: time -- Looking forward: place -- Looking backward: a world well lost? -- Pt. III Pre-texts -- Journalism: the commitment to contemporaneity -- "Strange, but true": fact certainty, and the desire for wonder -- Didacticism: the biases of presentism and the question of pleasure -- Directions of didacticism: the guide tradition -- Didacticism: the contexts of concern -- The self and the world: private histories -- The self observed: private vices, public benefits -- The self in the world: history, biography, and travel books.
Responsibility:	J. Paul Hunter.

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