The Boundaries of Fiction: History and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 256
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Focusing on canonical works by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, and others, this book explains the relationship between British fiction and historical writing when both were struggling to attain status and authority.

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