Satire, history, novel
Subtitle: narrative forms, 1665-1815
By: Frank Palmeri.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Satire.; European fiction -- History and criticism.
Description: "Displacing the novel from the central position it has held in studies concerned with its origin or rise in England, Satire, History, Novel considers fictional narratives as part of a network of complementary and competing genres, including conjectural histories and narrative satires and regards relations among these forms as most significant and revealing. This is the first book to explore the emergence - and the fading - of narrative genres in the context of successive cultural paradigms and the uneven development of public spheres."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-346) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: cultural paradigms, public spheres, and narrative forms; title: The satiric almanac in history, 1665-1800; title: Satire and the historical-memoir novel, 1690-1740; title: Satire, philosophical history, and the historical novel, 1700-1815; title: Satire, conjectural history, and the bildungsroman, 1720-1795; title: Satire, novel, and forms of the public sphere, 1740-1800; title: Satire and utopia in conjectural history, 1750-1800.