Katrin Berndt (Germany. University of Bremen)

Narrating Friendship and the British Novel, 1760-1830

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Produktbeschreibung

Contributing to our understanding of the complex interplay of philosophical, socio-cultural and literary discourses that shaped British fiction in the later Hanoverian decades, Berndtâ s book demonstrates that novels have conceived the modern individual not in opposition to, but in interaction with society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 154mm x 234mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780367346812
• ISBN-10: 0367346818
• Artikelnr.: 57003977

Autorenporträt

Katrin Berndt is Associate Professor of British and Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contents
Introduction
1 The Virtuousness of Conventions: Friendship and the Ethics of Fiction
1.1. Friendship Values, Friendship Virtues in Frances Brooke's The History
of Lady Julia Mandeville (1763)
1.2. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) and the Narcissistic Impotence of
Romantic Friendship
2 Public or Private? Friendship and the Novel Sphere in Utopian and
Sentimental Writing
2.1. A Utopian Conjunction? Philanthropic Design and Particular Friendship
in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall (1762)
2.2. Helen Maria Williams's Julia (1790) and the Paradigm of Active
Sensibility in the Sentimental Novel
3 A Question of Perspective and Character: Friendship and Narrative
Situation
3.1. 'Excite me to Virtue': Friendship as Reason and Purpose in Charlotte
Lennox's Euphemia (1790)
3.2. The Perceptive Pluralism of Friendship in Sir Walter Scott's
Redgauntlet (1824)
4 The Progress of the Plot: Epistemologies of Friendly Interventions
4.1. Not False, but Wrong? Friendly Interventions in Jane Austen's
Persuasion (1818)
4.2. Friendship, Truth, and the Generosity of Heart in Maria Edgeworth's
Helen (1834)
Conclusion: Friendship and the Novel Genre
Bibliography