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Author:

Zimmerman, Everett.

Title:

The boundaries of fiction : history and the eighteenth-century British novel / Everett Zimmerman.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

1996

Description:

vi, 250 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
Literature and history--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Historiography--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Historical fiction, English--History and criticism.
History in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction "Historical faith" -- Skeptical historiography and the constitution of the novel -- From Figura to Trace: Bunyan and Defoe -- A battle of books: Swift's Tale and Richardson's Clarissa -- The machine of narrative: Tom Jones and Caleb Williams -- From personal idenity to the material text: Sterne, Machenzie, and Scott -- Coda: epistemology, rhetoric and narrative: Historiography and the fictional -- Index.

ISBN:

9780801432514 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801432510 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)34546242

LCCN:

96017057

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)