The novel stage : narrative form from the Restoration to Jane Austen /
"The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen traces the novel's relation to the theater over the course of the long eighteenth century, arguing that the familiar account of the novel as 'new' and distinct from other literary genres risks distorting a true...
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Lewisburg, Pennsylvania :
Bucknell University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Transits (Bucknell University)
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Table of Contents:
- Genre, media, and the theory of the novel
- The reform of the Rake from Rochester to Inchbald
- Performing reading in Richardson and Fielding
- The promise of embarrassment : Frances Burney's Theater of shame
- Melodrama in Inchbald and Austen
- Coda : the melodramatic address.