Title The conversational circle : re-reading the English novel, 1740-1775 / Betty A. Schellenberg

Published Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (165 pages) Contents Introduction: Narrating Sociability in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England -- 1. Consensus, the Conversational Circle, and Mid-Eighteenth-Century Fiction -- 2. Constructing the Circle in Sarah Fielding's David Simple -- 3. Social Authority and the Domestic Circle in Samuel Richardson's Pamela Part II -- 4. Socializing Desire and Radiating the Exemplary in Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison -- 5. Silencing the Center in Henry Fielding's Amelia -- 6. Authorizing the Marginalized Circle in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall -- 7. Mobilizing the Community, Immobilizing the Ideal in Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker -- 8. Disembodying the Social Circle in Sarah Fielding's Volume the Last -- Conclusion: A Failed Plot? The Fate of the Conversational Circle in English Fiction Summary Twentieth-century historians of the early novel, most prominently Ian Watt, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Terry Castle, have canonized fictions that portray the individual in sustained tension with the social environment. Such fictions privilege a strongly linear structure. Recent reexaminations of the canon, however, have revealed a number of early novels that do not fit this mold. In The Conversational Circle: Rereading the English Novel, 1740-1775, Betty Schellenberg identifies another kind of plot, one that focuses on the social group - the "conversational circle"--As a model that can affirm traditional values but just as often promotes an alternative sense of community. Schellenberg offers a model for exploring a range of novels that experiment with narrative patterns Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-160) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism Conversation in literature. Literature and society -- England -- History -- 18th century Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism Oral communication in literature. Social interaction in literature. Friendship in literature. Speech in literature. Families in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Conversation in literature Domestic fiction, English English fiction Families in literature Friendship in literature Literature and society Oral communication in literature Social interaction in literature Speech in literature England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 96023024 ISBN 9780813159072 0813159075 0813185238 9780813185231

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