Samuel Richardson & the dramatic novel /

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Author / Creator:	Konigsberg, Ira.
Imprint:	Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015]
Description:	1 online resource (152 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Richardson, Samuel, -- 1689-1761 -- Criticism and interpretation. Richardson, Samuel, -- 1689-1761. Richardson, Samuel, -- 1689-1761. Epistolary fiction, English -- History and criticism. Fiction -- Technique. Epistolary fiction, English. Fiction -- Technique. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11239877

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ISBN:	9780813163727 0813163722 1322600783 9781322600789 0813153530 9780813153537
Notes:	English. Print version record.
Summary:	Samuel Richardson, the founder of the modern English novel, gave shape to a previously unformed literary genre. Instrumental in the development of this new art form, Ira Konigsberg contends, is the influence of the drama. Although scholars have long suspected the influence of drama on Richardson's writing, this is the first study to examine it in detail. In such matters as material, technique, and structure, Konigsberg seeks to show that Richardson found his precedents in Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama and that it was his integration of these dramatic elements with fiction which.
Other form:	Print version: Konigsberg, Ira. Samuel Richardson and the Dramatic Novel. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813153537

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