Sie befinden Sich nicht im Netzwerk der Universität Paderborn. Der Zugriff auf elektronische Ressourcen ist gegebenenfalls nur via VPN oder Shibboleth (DFN-AAI) möglich. mehr Informationen...
The Boundaries of Fiction: History and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
Ist Teil von
The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats, 1998, Vol.31 (1), p.69
Ort / Verlag
Philadelphia: The Scriblerian
Erscheinungsjahr
1998
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The novel as a genre explores this erosion of confidence and helps repair it with its emphasis on probability and interpretation which establish authority that can no longer be assumed. [...]the novels are concerned with both the materiality of text and the fragility of meaning. Chapter four shifts its focus to emplotment, pairing Tom Jones and Caleb Williams in a convincing analysis of the way plausibility of character and event are established to combat modern skepticism (in Tom Jones) or rejected to free the self from the repetitive patterns of human history (in Caleb Williams).