Samuel Richardson and the Dramatic Novel

Samuel Richardson and the Dramatic Novel PDF

Author: Ira Konigsberg

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 0813163722

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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 caused the mutation in genre that is responsible for the subsequent course of the English novel.

Essential Novelists - Samuel Richardson

Essential Novelists - Samuel Richardson PDF

Author: Samuel Richardson

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2020-05-09

Total Pages: 4420

ISBN-13: 3968589904

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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Samuel Richardson wich are Pamela and Clarissa Harlowe. Samuel Richardson was an English novelist who expanded the dramatic possibilities of the novel by his invention and use of the epistolary novel form.Research has shown that Richardson had a distinct influence on Jane Austen, she utilized the epistolary style that Richardson conceived in many of her novels, most famously Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park. Novels selected for this book: - Pamela. - Clarissa Harlowe.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded PDF

Author: Samuel Richardson

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13:

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"This novel (published 1740) created an epoch in the history of English fiction, and, with its successors, exerted a wide influence upon Continental literature. It is appropriately included in a series which is designed to form a group of studies of English life by the masters of English fiction. For it marked the transition from the novel of adventure to the novel of character—from the narration of entertaining events to the study of men and of manners, of motives and of sentiments. In it the romantic interest of the story (which is of the slightest) is subordinated to the moral interest in the conduct of its characters in the various situations in which they are placed. Upon this aspect of the “drama of human life” Richardson cast a most observant, if not always a penetrating glance. His works are an almost microscopically detailed picture of English domestic life in the early part of the eighteenth century." -Preface

The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel

The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel PDF

Author: J. A. Downie

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 0199566747

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The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth Century Novel is the first published book to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. It is an indispensible resource for those with an interest in the history of the novel.

Samuel Richardson and the theory of tragedy

Samuel Richardson and the theory of tragedy PDF

Author: James Smith

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2015-04-29

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1784997978

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Samuel Richardson and the theory of tragedy is a bold new interpretation of one of the greatest European novels, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. It argues that this text needs to be rethought as a dangerous exploration of the ethics of tragedy, on the scale of the great arguments of post-Romantic tragic theory, from Hölderlin to Nietzsche, to Benjamin, Lacan and beyond. Taking the reader through the novel from beginning to end, it also acts as a guidebook for newcomers to Richardson's notoriously massive text, and situates it alongside Richardson's other works and the epistolary novel form in general. Filled with innovative close readings that will provoke scholars, students and general readers of the novel alike, it will also serve as a jumping off point for anyone interested in the way the theory of tragedy continues to be the privileged meeting point between literature and philosophy.

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