Partisan politics, narrative realism, and the rise of the British novel
By: Rachel Carnell.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Political fiction, English -- History and criticism.; English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; English fiction -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Politics in literature.; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Description: "Narrative realism has long been understood as a full account of "real life" and the individual self. Breaking with this traditional history, Partisan Politics, Narrative Realism, and the Rise of the British Novel demonstrates that the formal conventions of narrative realism emerged at the end of the seventeenth century in response to an explosion of partisan writings that offered rival versions of political selfhood. The novel mediated between competing Whig, Tory, and Jacobite versions of selfhood that emerged during the upheavals of the 1680s and flourished through the mid 1750s. The rise of the novel was connected to the rise of "the individual," as traditional accounts proposed, but this Whig individual was just one of several partisan versions of the self that were vying for pre-eminence during this period."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.