Samuel Richardson & the dramatic novel.
Samuel Richardson, the founder of the modern English novel, gave shape to a previously unformed literary genre. Instrumental in the development of this new art form, Ira Konigsberg contends, is the influence of the drama. Although scholars have long suspected the influence of drama on Richardson...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lexington,
University of Kentucky Press,
1968.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | Samuel Richardson, the founder of the modern English novel, gave shape to a previously unformed literary genre. Instrumental in the development of this new art form, Ira Konigsberg contends, is the influence of the drama. Although scholars have long suspected the influence of drama on Richardson's writing, this is the first study to examine it in detail. In such matters as material, technique, and structure, Konigsberg seeks to show that Richardson found his precedents in Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama and that it was his integration of these dramatic elements with fiction which. |
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| Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (142 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 125-135) |
| ISBN: | 0813163722 9780813163727 |
