The conversational circle
re-reading the English novel, 1740-1775
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Author
Publication
1996 - University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Language
English
Word Count
41,250 words, Guess
Page Count
165 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL985216M
- ISBN-100813119901
- OCLC Control Number34699657
- OCLC Control Numberconversationalci0000sche
- Library of Congress Control Number96023024
and 2 more
- Goodreads3351631
- LibraryThing3390837
Classifications
- DDC823/.509355
- LCCPR858.C66 S74 1996
Description
Twentieth-century historians of the early novel, most prominently Ian Watt, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Terry Castle, have canonized fictions that portray the individual in sustained tension with the social environment. Such fictions privilege a strongly linear structure. Recent reexaminations of the canon, however, have revealed a number of early novels that do not fit this mold. In The Conversational Circle: Rereading the English Novel, 1740-1775, Betty Schellenberg identifies another kind of plot, one that focuses on the social group - the "conversational circle" - as a model that can affirm traditional values but just as often promotes an alternative sense of community. Schellenberg offers a model for exploring a range of novels that experiment with narrative patterns.
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