Number and Pattern in the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Defoe, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne

by Douglas Brooks-Davies and Douglas Brooks

Book Overview

Numerological patterning in literature, where structural details of a literary work are symbolically related to its meaning on the verbal level, was particularly common from the Middle Ages up to the seventeenth century. Originally published in 1973, the author breaks new ground in revealing that familiarity with this technique lived on into the eighteenth century, supplying the more artistically aware of the early British novelists with meaningful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367444046
• ISBN13: 9780367444044
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"