Eighteenth-century fiction and the reinvention of wonder /

A footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a church steeple. Eighteenth-century fiction brims with moments such as these, in which the prosaic rubs up against the marvelous. While it is a truism tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kareem, Sarah Tindal (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism. Curiosities and wonders in literature. English fiction > History and criticism > 18th century. Roman anglais > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique. Curiosités et merveilles dans la littérature. Roman anglais > Histoire et critique > 18e siècle. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Curiosities and wonders in literature English fiction 1700-1799 Electronic books. Electronic book. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Wonder and the rise of fiction
Wonder in the age of enlightenment
Rethinking the real with Robinson Crusoe and David Hume
Suspending the reader in Tom Jones and The Castle of Otranto
"Marvelous tales of wonders performed, or rather, not performed" in Baron Munchausen's Narrative
"A little voyage of discovery?": fiction and the pursuit of knowledge
Epilogue.