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The novel stage : narrative form from the Restoration to Jane Austen

Title
The novel stage : narrative form from the Restoration to Jane Austen / Marcie Frank.
Author
Frank, Marcie
Publication
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2020]

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Description
218 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen traces the novel's relation to the theater over the course of the long eighteenth century, arguing that the familiar account of the novel as 'new' and distinct from other literary genres risks distorting a true reckoning of the form by failing to engage with the borrowings and departures from other more familiar genres, particularly drama. The Novel Stage traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel. These genres were shared across print and performance, media that were not construed as opposites in a world in which individual silent reading took place beside playgoing, play-reading, amateur theatricals, and sociable reading aloud. The book thus expands an overly narrow conception of the novel as the genre of realism or domesticity whose highest achievement is its representation of characters' mental lives by describing the influence of the stage and its genres. Beginning in the later 1600s with Aphra Behn, The Novel Stage concludes with a chapter on some novelists of the Romantic period and a coda about Victorian novels. The Novel Stage's account of the novel provides an enriched, because more specific, sense of its formal accomplishments that drew on this ensemble of cultural forms and turns that lens back onto drama"--
Series Statement
Transits : literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
Uniform Title
Transits (Bucknell University)
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index.
Contents
Genre, media, and the theory of the novel -- The reform of the Rake from Rochester to Inchbald -- Performing reading in Richardson and Fielding -- The promise of embarrassment : Frances Burney's Theater of shame -- Melodrama in Inchbald and Austen -- Coda : the melodramatic address.
Call Number
JFE 20-3718
ISBN
  • 9781684481682
  • 1684481686
  • 9781684481675
  • 1684481678
  • 9781684481712 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781684481699 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2019016869
OCLC
1101027259
Author
Frank, Marcie, author.
Title
The novel stage : narrative form from the Restoration to Jane Austen / Marcie Frank.
Publisher
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2020]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Transits : literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
Transits (Bucknell University)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index.
Chronological Term
1700-1799
Research Call Number
JFE 20-3718
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