Re-reading the eighteenth-century novel : studies in reception

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Title
"Re-reading the eighteenth-century novel : studies in reception"
Statement of Responsibility
Jakub Lipski
Publisher
  • Routledge
Publication Year
  • 2021
Book size
23 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hbk

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Summary: "Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel adds to the dynamically developing subfield of reception studies within eighteenth-century studies. Lipski shows how secondary visual and literary texts live their own lives in new contexts, while being also attentive to the possible ways in which these new lives may tell us more about the source texts. To this end the book offers five case studies of how canonical novels of the eighteenth century by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne came to be interpreted by readers from different historical moments, as reflected by secondary cultural texts. Lipski prioritises responses that may seem non-standard or even disconnected from the original, appreciating difference as a gateway to unobvious territories, as well as expressing doubts regarding readings that verge on misinterpretative appropriation. The material encompasses textual and visual testimonies of reading, including book illustration, prints and drawings, personal documents, reviews, ..."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [105]-115) and index

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