Fictions of friendship in the eighteenth-century novel / Bryan Mangano.
2017
PR858.F74 M36 2017eb
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Title
Fictions of friendship in the eighteenth-century novel / Bryan Mangano.
Author
Mangano, Bryan, author.
ISBN
9783319486956 (electronic book)
3319486950 (electronic book)
9783319486949
3319486942
3319486950 (electronic book)
9783319486949
3319486942
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (297 pages)
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PR858.F74 M36 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.509353
810/820
810/820
Summary
This book explores the reciprocal influence of friendship ideals and narrative forms in eighteenth-century British fiction. It examines how various novelists, from Samuel Richardson to Mary Shelley, drew upon classical and early modern conceptions of true amity as a model of collaborative pedagogy. Analyzing authors, their professional circumstances, and their audiences, the study shows how the rhetoric of friendship became a means of paying deference to the increasing power of readerships, while it also served as a semi-covert means to persuade resistant readers and confront aesthetic and moral debates head on. The study contributes to an understanding of gender roles in the early history of the novel by disclosing the constant interplay between male and female models of amity. It demonstrates that this gendered dialogue shaped the way novelists imagined character interiority, reconciled with the commercial aspects of writing, and engaged mixed-sex audiences.
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This book explores the reciprocal influence of friendship ideals and narrative forms in eighteenth-century British fiction. It examines how various novelists, from Samuel Richardson to Mary Shelley, drew upon classical and early modern conceptions of true amity as a model of collaborative pedagogy. Analyzing authors, their professional circumstances, and their audiences, the study shows how the rhetoric of friendship became a means of paying deference to the increasing power of readerships, while it also served as a semi-covert means to persuade resistant readers and confront aesthetic and moral debates head on. The study contributes to an understanding of gender roles in the early history of the novel by disclosing the constant interplay between male and female models of amity. It demonstrates that this gendered dialogue shaped the way novelists imagined character interiority, reconciled with the commercial aspects of writing, and engaged mixed-sex audiences.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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