Chance And The Eighteenth Century Novel

Author : Jesse Molesworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521191084
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by Jesse Molesworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the relationship between realism, probability and chance in eighteenth-century fiction.

Author : Thomas M. Kavanagh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance written by Thomas M. Kavanagh and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Montesquieu was praising indifference to financial gain, Louis XV regularly presided over dizzying gambling games at Versailles. While Descartes was advancing a strategy for escaping from chance by appealing to the protocols of certainty, clandestine gambling operations in Paris numbered in the hundreds. Despite efforts by the major figures of the French Enlightenment to suppress the period's fascination with chance, high-stakes gambling was an integral part of the social rituals of the most influential groups within the ancien regime. In Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance, Thomas Kavanagh explores this important paradox to shed light on the genesis, development, and function of the eighteenth-century French novel. First considering the roles of chance and gambling in the epistemological, social, and economic histories of the period, Kavanagh shows that doctrines of chance played a denied yet operative role in important aspects of what the French Enlightenment proclaimed itself to be. He then looks at representations of chance in the novels of Prechac, Prevost, Voltaire, Denon, Crebillon, and Diderot, and shows how they tell two stories: that of a deterministic and ordered universe, and that of a world of fortuitous events determined only by chance. It was the tension and interplay between these two poles, Kavanagh argues, that contributed in an important way to the development of the Enlightenment's ideal of the rational man.

Author : Jessica Richard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230307272
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel written by Jessica Richard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new socio-economy of long odds and lucky breaks.

Author : Modern Language Association of America
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Probability, Time, and Space in Eighteenth-century Literature written by Modern Language Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chloe Wigston Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107035007
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by Chloe Wigston Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the novel's vibrant engagement with clothes, examining how fiction revises and reshapes material objects within its pages.

Author : Eve Tavor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349185167
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scepticism Society And The Eighteenth-Century Novel written by Eve Tavor and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-12-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : April London
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521895359
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by April London and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clearly written account of the development of the novel over the course of the long eighteenth century.

Author : Jolene Zigarovich
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512823783
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by Jolene Zigarovich and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period's rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as the increasing commodification of death and mourning typically associated with nineteenth-century practices. Drawing on a variety of historical discourses--such as wills, undertaking histories, medical treatises and textbooks, anatomical studies, philosophical treatises, and religious tracts and sermons--the book contributes to a fuller understanding of the history of death in the Enlightenment and its narrative transformation. Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel not only offers new insights about the effect of a growing secularization and commodification of death on the culture and its productions, but also fills critical gaps in the history of death, using narrative as a distinct literary marker. As anatomists dissected, undertakers preserved, jewelers encased, and artists figured the corpse, so too the novelist portrayed bodily artifacts. Why are these morbid forms of materiality entombed in the novel? Jolene Zigarovich addresses this complex question by claiming that the body itself--its parts, or its preserved representation--functioned as secular memento, suggesting that preserved remains became symbols of individuality and subjectivity. To support the conception that in this period notions of self and knowing center upon theories of the tactile and material, the chapters are organized around sensory conceptions and bodily materials such as touch, preserved flesh, bowel, heart, wax, hair, and bone. Including numerous visual examples, the book also argues that the relic represents the slippage between corpse and treasure, sentimentality and materialism, and corporeal fetish and aesthetic accessory. Zigarovich's analysis compels us to reassess the eighteenth-century response to and representation of the dead and dead-like body, and its material purpose and use in fiction. In a broader framework, Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel also narrates a history of the novel that speaks to the cultural formation of modern individualism.

Author : Aaron R. Hanlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108853900
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empirical Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by Aaron R. Hanlon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element examines the eighteenth-century novel's contributions to empirical knowledge. Realism has been the conventional framework for treating this subject within literary studies. This Element identifies the limitations of the realism framework for addressing the question of knowledge in the eighteenth-century novel. Moving beyond the familiar focus in the study of novelistic realism on problems of perception and representation, this Element focuses instead on how the eighteenth-century novel staged problems of inductive reasoning. It argues that we should understand the novel's contributions to empirical knowledge primarily in terms of what the novel offered as training ground for methods of reasoning, rather than what it offered in terms of formal innovations for representing knowledge. We learn from such a shift that the eighteenth-century novel was not a failed experiment in realism, or in representing things as they are, but a valuable system for reasoning and thought experiment.

Author : Sarah Tindal Kareem
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191003123
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder written by Sarah Tindal Kareem and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a church steeple. Eighteenth-century fiction brims with moments such as these, in which the prosaic rubs up against the marvelous. While it is a truism that the period's literature is distinguished by its realism and air of probability, Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder argues that wonder is integral to—rather than antithetical to—the developing techniques of novelistic fiction. Positioning its reader on the cusp between recognition and estrangement, between faith and doubt, modern fiction hinges upon wonder. Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder unfolds its new account of fiction's rise through surprising readings of classic early novels—from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey—and brings to attention lesser-known works, most notably Rudolf Raspe's Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels. In this bold new account, the eighteenth century bears witness not to the world's disenchantment but rather to wonder's relocation from the supernatural realm to the empirical world, providing a reevaluation not only of how we look back at the Enlightenment, but also of how we read today.