Novel beginnings [electronic resource] : experiments in eighteenth-century English fiction / Patricia Meyer Spacks.
Series: Yale guides to English literaturePublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.Description: ix, 309 pISBN:- 0300110316 (alk. paper)
- 9780300128338
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- PR858.E982 S66 2006eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-297) and index.
The excitement of beginnings -- Novels of adventure -- The novel of development -- Novels of consciousness -- The novel of sentiment -- The novel of manners -- Gothic fiction -- The political novel -- Tristram Shandy and the development of the novel.
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