The Epistolary Novel

The Epistolary Novel
Author: Joe Bray
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2003-08-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134402546

The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way that the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel. Critics have drawn a distinction between the self at the time of writing and the self at the time at which events or emotions were experienced. This book demonstrates that the tensions within consciousness are the result of a continual interaction between the two selves of the letter-writer and charts the oscillation between these two selves in the epistolary novels of, amongst others, Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Fanny Burney and Charlotte Smith.

Aphra Behn's Afterlife

Aphra Behn's Afterlife
Author: Jane Spencer
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780198184942

Aphra Behn is significant as an early example of a successful professional woman writer. This analysis of her influence on literature argues the need for a feminist revision of the writer who had literary sons as well as daughters.

Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700

Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700
Author: Ingo Berensmeyer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2020-06-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 311069140X

This book explores literary culture in England between 1630 and 1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic, and political conditions of literary writing and reading. In a number of case studies and close readings, it presents the seventeenth century as a period of change that saw a fundamental shift towards a new cultural configuration: neoclassicism. This shift affected a wide array of social practices and institutions, from poetry to politics and from epistemology to civility.

Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn

Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn
Author: Laura L. Runge
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2023-05-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1839982020

Aphra Behn (1640–1689), prolific and popular playwright, poet, novelist, translator, has a fascinating and extensive corpus of literature that plays a key role in literary history. Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion offers what no book has done to date, an analysis of all Behn’s literary output. It examines the author’s use of words in terms of frequencies and distributions and stacks the words in context to read Behn’s word usage synchronically. Using this experimental method, the book brings digital humanities into literary criticism, to enhance our understanding and appreciation of literature beyond what is possible in diachronic reading and scholarship less supported by digital means. The empirical approach works in collaboration with existing scholarship to understand Behn’s distinct language of love and extreme passions across her genres.

Jacob Tonson, Publisher

Jacob Tonson, Publisher
Author: George Francis Papali
Publisher: [Auckland] : Tonson Publishing House
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1968
Genre: Authors and publishers
ISBN: