In quest of the self : masquerade and travel in the Eighteenth-Century novel : Fielding, Smollett, Sterne / Jakub Lipski.

In quest of the self : masquerade and travel in the Eighteenth-Century novel : Fielding, Smollett, Sterne / Jakub Lipski.

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 affinit...

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Bibliographic Details
Alternate Title:Masquerade and travel in the Eighteenth-Century novel : Fielding, Smollett, Sterne
Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Lipski, Jakub (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2014.
Series:Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 42.
Subjects:
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Masquerades in literature.
Masquerades > Great Britain.
Travelers > England > History > 18th century.
Literature and society > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • The Discourse of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
  • Fielding's Travellers
  • The Masquerading World
  • Joseph and Tom in the Masquerading World
  • Smollett's Travellers
  • Roderick's and Peregrine's Protean Identities
  • The Masquerading Protagonists
  • Tradition and Novelty in Yorick's Journey
  • The Poetics of Mask and Sentiment
  • Yorick as a Polyphonic Character
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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