TY - BOOK AU - McKeon,Michael TI - The origins of the English novel, 1600-1740 SN - 0801869951 (alk. paper) AV - PR841 .M3 2002 U1 - 823.309 MCO 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Baltimore, Md. PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - English fiction KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - History and criticism KW - SLSH KW - 18th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Dialectical Method in Literary History -- Ch. 1. The Destabilization of Generic Categories -- 1. "Romance" as a Simple Abstraction -- 2. Precursors Revolutions: The Greek Enlightenment -- 3. Precursor Revolutions: The Twelfth-Century Renaissance -- 4. Historicism and the Historical Revolution -- 5. The Claim to Historicity -- 6. Native Empiricism and Extreme Skepticism -- 7. Romance, Antiromance, True History -- Ch. 2. The Evidence of the Senses: Secularization and Epistemological Crisis -- 1. The Contradictory Unity of the New Philosophy -- 2. "Natural History" as a Narrative Model -- 3. "Religion versus Science" and the Problem of Mediation -- 4. The Literalizing of Revelation -- 5. Apparition Narratives -- Ch. 3. Histories of the Individual -- 1. From Saint's Life to Spiritual Biography -- 2. From Picaresque to Criminal Biography -- 3. From Christian Pilgrimage to Scientific Travel -- 4. The Empirical Style Becomes Problematic -- 5. The Emergence of Extreme Skepticism -- 6. Toward Realism, the Aesthetic, and Human Creativity -- Ch. 4. The Destabilization of Social Categories -- 1. Aristocratic Ideology -- 2. Precursor Revolutions: The Greek Enlightenment -- 3. Precursor Revolutions: The Twelfth-Century Renaissance -- 4. Progressive Ideology and the Transvaluation of Honor -- 5. The Rise of the Gentry -- 6. From Status to Class -- 7. The Persistence of the Aristocracy -- 8. The Formation of Conservative Ideology -- 9. Understanding Status Inconsistency -- Ch. 5. Absolutism and Capitalist Ideology: The Volatility of Reform -- 1. The Absolute Prince Absolutized -- 2. Sword and Robe -- 3. Protestants and Capitalists -- 4. Evaluating Human Appetites -- 5. Progressive Ideology and Conservative Ideology -- Ch. 6. Stories of Virtue -- 1. Novelistic Narrative as Historical Explanation -- 2. Historical Models for Progressive Narratives -- 3. Historical Models for Conservative Narratives -- 4. Ideological Implications of Generic Models -- 5. The Gendering of Ideology -- 6. The Conflation of Truth and Virtue -- Ch. 7. Romance Transformations (I): Cervantes and the Disenchantment of the World -- Ch. 8. Romance Transformations (II): Bunyan and the Literalization of Allegory -- Ch. 9. Parables of the Younger Son (I): Defoe and the Naturalization of Desire -- Ch. 10. Parables of the Younger Son (II): Swift and the Containment of Desire -- Ch. 11. The Institutionalization of Conflict (I): Richardson and the Domestication of Service -- Ch. 12. The Institutionalization of Conflict (II): Fielding and the Instrumentality of Belief; English UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/jhu051/2002016072.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/jhu051/2002016072.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/jhu051/2002016072.html UR - http://www.worldcat.org/title/origins-of-the-english-novel-1600-1740/oclc/48876538&referer=brief_results UR - http://lib.ewubd.edu/ebook/7182 ER -