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Author:   Liisa Steinby ,  Aino Mäkikalli
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
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9781041183358

ISBN 10:   1041183356
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   01 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction, The Eighteenth-Century Challenge to Narrative Theory, Formalism and Historicity Reconciled in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, Perspective and Focalization in Eighteenth-Century Descriptions, Temporality in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Temporality, Subjectivity and the Representation of Characters in the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Authorial Narration Reconsidered, Problems of Tellability in German Eighteenth-Century Criticism and Novel-Writing, Immediacy, The Tension between Idea and Narrative Form: The Example as a Narrative Structure in Enlightenment Literature, 'Speaking Well of the Dead', The Use of Paratext in Popular Eighteenth-Century Biography, Peritextual Disposition in French Eighteenth-Century Narratives, List of abbreviations, Index

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Liisa Steinby has published two volumes in eighteenth-century German literature a monograph and co-edited a collection of essays on Daniel Defoe. The contributors comprise a number of the most eminent scholars in the field of the study of eighteenth-century literature and narrative theory, such as Michael McKeon, John Richetti, Pat Rogers and Monika Fludernik. Aino Mäkikalli has published a monograph and co-edited a collection of essays on Daniel Defoe. The contributors comprise a number of the most eminent scholars in the field of the study of eighteenth-century literature and narrative theory, such as Michael McKeon, John Richetti, Pat Rogers and Monika Fludernik.

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