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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: McKeon, Michael, 1943- Origins of the English novel, 1600-1740. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1987 (OCoLC)570548257 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael McKeon |
| ISBN: | 0801832918 9780801832918 0801837464 9780801837463 0801869595 9780801869594 |
| OCLC Number: | 13904549 |
| Awards: | Winner of Modern Language Association James Russell Lowell Prize 1988 (United States) |
| Description: | xi, 529 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction: dialectical method in literary history -- Questions of Truth -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Questions of virtue -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- The dialectical constitution of the novel -- Romance transformations (I): Cervantes and the disenchantment of the world -- Romance transformations (II): Bunyan and the literalization of allegory -- Parables of the younger son (I): Defoe and the naturalization of desire -- The institutionalization of conflict (I): Richardson and the domestication of service -- The institutionalization of conflict (II): fielding and the instrumentality of belief. |
| Responsibility: | Michael McKeon. |
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