Kate Loveman

Reading Fictions, 1660-1740

Deception in English Literary and Political Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Kate Loveman explores the ways in which seventeenth- and eighteenth-century reading habits were applied to and shaped genres. Examining works by authors such as Defoe, Swift, Richardson and Fielding, she recovers a lost critical discourse through which authors and readers interrogated, mocked, and elaborated fictions. Her lively book offers a striking new approach to Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and politics, in particular to understanding the development of the novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780754662372
• ISBN-10: 0754662373
• Artikelnr.: 44972035

Autorenporträt

Kate Loveman is lecturer in English at the University of Leicester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Sceptical reading in the 17th and early 18th centuries
The Strange Finding Out of Moses his Tombe: strategies and motives for hoaxing
'Florishing lyes': coffee-house wit in the Restoration
More Shams Still: reading in the Popish Plot and Exclusion crisis
News, novels and imposture, 1688-1702
Defoe and his 'ill-disposed' readers
Swift's bites: 18th-century raillery in theory and practice
Bubbling sentiments: Richardson's Pamela and Fielding's Shamela
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index.