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100 1 _aMcKeon, Michael,
_d1943-
_eauthor.
_940339
245 1 4 _aThe origins of the English novel, 1600-1740 /
_cMichael McKeon ; with a new introduction by the author.
250 _aFifteenth anniversary edition.
264 1 _aBaltimore, Maryland :
_bThe Johns Hopkins University Press,
_c[2002]
264 4 _cc2002
300 _axxix, 529 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _aOriginally published, 1987.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: dialectical method in literary history -- pt. 1. Questions of Truth: Chapter one,The destabilization of generic categories: "Romance" as a simple abstraction -- Precursor revolutions: the Greek Enlightenment -- Precursor revolutions: the twelfth-century renaissance -- Historicism and the historical revolution -- The claim to historicity -- Naive Empiricism and extreme skepticism -- Romance, antiromance, true history -- Chapter Two,The evidence of the senses: secularization and epistemological crisis: The contradictory unity of the new philosophy -- "Natural history" as a narrative model -- "Religion versus science" and the problem of mediation -- The literalizing of revelation -- Apparition narratives -- Chapter Three, Histories of the individual: From saint's life to spiritual biography -- From picaresque to criminal biography -- From Christian pilgrimmage to scientific travel -- The empirical style becomes problematic -- The emergence of extreme skepticism -- Toward realism, the aesthetic, and human creativity -- Pt. 2. Questions of virtue: Chapter Four, The destabilization of social categories: Aristocratic ideology -- Precursor revolutions: the Greek Enlightenment -- Precursor revolutions: the twelfth-century renaissance -- Progressive ideology and the transvaluation of honor -- The rise of the gentry -- From status to class -- The persistence of the aristocracy -- The formation of conservative ideology -- Understanding status inconsistency -- Chapter Five, Absolutism and capitalist ideology: the volatility of reform: The absolute prince absolutized -- Sword and robe -- Protestants and capitalists -- Evaluating human appetites -- Progressive ideology and conservative ideology -- Chapter Six, Stories of virtue: Novelistic narrative as historical explanation -- Historical models for progressive narratives -- Historical models for conservative narratives -- Ideological implications of generic models -- The gendering of ideology -- The conflation of truth and virtue -- pt. 3. The dialectical constitution of the novel: Chapter 7 Romance transformations (I): Cervantes and the disenchantment of the world -- Chapter 8 Romance transformations (II): Bunyan and the literalization of allegory -- Chapter 9 Parables of the younger son (I): Defoe and the naturalization of desire -- Chapter 10 Parables of the younger son (II): Swift and the containment of desire -- Chapter 11 The institutionalization of conflict (I): Richardson and the domestication of service -- Chapter 12 The institutionalization of conflict (II): fielding and the instrumentality of belief.
650 7 _aEnglish fiction
_yEarly modern, 1500-1700
_xHistory and criticism.
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650 7 _aEnglish fiction
_y18th century
_xHistory and criticism.
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_cOctober2016
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