The Conversational Circle: Rereading the English Novel, 1740-1775

by Betty A. Schellenberg

" The Conversational Circle offers a model for exploring a range of novels that experiment with narrative patterns. It makes a compelling case that teleological approaches to novel history that privilege the conflict between the individual and society are, quite simply, ahistorical. Twentieth-century historians of the early novel, most prominently Ian Watt, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Terry Castle, have canonized fictions that portray the individual in sustained...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813119901
• ISBN13: 9780813119908
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher