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In Quest of the Self

Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Fielding, Smollett, Sterne

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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In recent decades the masquerade has enjoyed a revival in literary and cultural studies. It has been seen as a symptom of the irrational trends permeating the Age of Reason and as a sign of the instability, arbitrariness as well as non-essentiality of personal identity; notions testifying to affinities between the eighteenth century and our own time.In Quest of the Self offers a new consideration not only of the masquerade as such, but also of the ways in which it was transposed into literature during the period. Here it emerges as a dominant trope governing the poetics and the ideological dimensions of selected eighteenth-century novels by Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett and Laurence Sterne. Throughout, the book demonstrates that the travelling protagonists of the novels, metaphorically speaking, take part in the ‘masquerade of the world’, finding themselves in quest of their own selves and struggling to determine who they really are.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-01-01
Mått155 x 235 x 12 mm
Vikt354 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieConsciousness, Literature and the Arts
Antal sidor223
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789042038899

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AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction: The Discourse of Identity in Eighteenth-Century FictionPart One: Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones: Travellers in the Masquerading World1. Fielding’s Travellers2. The Masquerading World3. Joseph and Tom in the Masquerading WorldPart Two: Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle: Protean Travellers4. Smollett’s Travellers5. Roderick’s and Peregrine’s Protean Identities6. The Masquerading ProtagonistsPart Three: A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy: Masquerade and Sentimentalism7. Tradition and Novelty in Yorick’s Journey8. The Poetics of Mask and Sentiment9. Yorick as a Polyphonic CharacterConclusionBibliographyIndex