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Williams, Andrew Jerome. "Tolerable faiths: religious toleration, secularism, and the eighteenth-century British novel." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6521.

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The purpose of my research was to understand the role that the novel played in the development of religious toleration in eighteenth-century Britain. In my first chapter, I draw on an archive of polemical texts, legal documents, correspondence, sermons, and novels to reconstruct the historical and ideological transformations that occurred between the English Civil War (1642) and Catholic Emancipation (1829). I demonstrate the centrality of anti-Catholicism to the construction of British identity and arguments for the toleration of Protestant Dissenters. Throughout my dissertation, I argue that
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Wells, Michael. "Imagination and mediation: eighteenth-century British novels and moral philosophy." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/324.

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This study provides a new account of the evolution of the eighteenth-century British novel by reading it as a response to contemporary interest in, and self-consciousness about, print communication. During the eighteenth century, print went from being a marginal technology to being one with an increasingly wide circulation and a diverse range of applications. The pervasive adoption of print generated anxiety about its positive and negative effects, prompting a series of responses from writers. Examining the work of five British novelists from across the long eighteenth century, this dissertati
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Cabus, Andrea Leigh. "Selective Memory: Victorian Periodical Receptions of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Novels." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/75794.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>Attention to Victorian reviews of eighteenth-century and Romantic novels reveals sympathy's importance to the survival of classic novels and its role as a catalyst for critical standards that remain central. I demonstrate that reviewers used sympathy to describe a widespread but untheorized system of useful reading. Reviewers argue that rational sympathy could make reading a process of moral education. That is, if readers reject emotional stimulation, then reading about characters' motives teaches readers to evaluate the people and situations they encounter in the real worl
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Bowen, Michael John. "Uncertain affections : representations of trust in the British sentimental novel of the eighteenth century." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38158.

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This thesis examines representations of trust in selected British sentimental novels of the eighteenth century. It focuses principally on the manner in which sentimental prose fiction reflects and participates in the shift from premodern to modern formations of trust. Commenting on the nature of modern trust, Anthony Giddens claims that, with the move to modernity, trust relations in the intimate sphere become increasingly dependent on emotional mutuality, while trust in institutions becomes increasingly impersonal and disengaged from assessments of moral character.<br>My work explores this du
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Distel, Kristin M. "Gendered Shame, Female Subjectivity, and the Rise of the Eighteenth-Century Novel." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1604057648041618.

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Hanlon, Aaron Raymond. "Quixotic exceptionalism : British and US co-narratives, 1713-1823." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58ff8e41-b064-4daf-bedf-3a3d7aab1a69.

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Scholars have long since identified a quixotic mode in fiction, acknowledging the widespread influence of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605-15) on subsequent texts. In most cases, “quixotic” signifies a preponderance of allusions to Don Quixote in a given text, such that most studies of “quixotic fictions” or “quixotic influence” are primarily taxonomic in purpose and in outcome: they name and catalogue a text or group of texts as “quixotic,” then argue that, by virtue of the vast and protean influence of Don Quixote, the quixotic mode in fiction is always divided, lacking any semblance o
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Henry, Anne C. "In ellipsis : the history of suspension marks in British literature, with particular reference to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275344.

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Hill, Cecily Erin. "Formal Education: Early Children’s Genres, Gender, and the Realist Novel." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429278003.

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Peterson, Katrina M. "Humor, Characterization, Plot: The Role of Secondary Characters in Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Marriage Novels." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1303262727.

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Cunard, Candace. "Novel Feelings: Emotion, Duration, and the Form of the Eighteenth-Century British Novel." Thesis, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8XD2J4Q.

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One of the first features of the eighteenth-century novel to strike the modern reader is its sheer length, and yet critics have argued that these novels prioritize emotional experiences that are essentially fleeting. “Novel Feelings” corrects this imbalance by attending to ongoing emotional experiences like suspense, familiarization, frustration, and hope—both as they are represented in novels and as they characterize readerly response to novels. In so doing, I demonstrate the centrality of such protracted emotional experiences to debates about the ethics of feeling in eighteenth-century Brita
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Kim, James Young. "Dialectics of loss : sentimental irony and the eighteenth-century British novel /." 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3108765.

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Park, Hajeong. "Intertextuality, female alliance and literary genealogy in the eighteenth-century British novel." 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=982793051&sid=32&Fmt=2&clientId=39334&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2005.<br>Title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 15, 2006) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Lynch, Deidre S. Includes bibliographical references.
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Sadow, Jonathan B. "The nostalgia for novelty: Revivals of the eighteenth century novel, genuine and spurious." 2004. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3152741.

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Revivals of the eighteenth century novel and revivals of material culture are closely related. Whether one is mourning the lost bagel of the past or the lost novel, a complex form of nostalgia is at work. Historians of the novel Ian Watt, Michael McKeon, J. Paul Hunter, Lennard Davis, and many others are participants in the continuous re-invention of an invented tradition. Similarly, a number of novelists, reviving a great deal of eighteenth century discourse on genre, historiography, and aesthetics, partake of a nostalgia for novelty, a lost time when the European novel might truly have been
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Su, Jing-fen, and 蘇靖棻. "Prose Satire and the Novel: Satirical Novels by Five British Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93487359855823489188.

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博士<br>臺灣大學<br>外國語文學研究所<br>98<br>This dissertation examines the satirical novels by five British women writers in the long eighteenth century, including The New Atalantis (1709) by Delarivier Manley (1672-1724), The Reform''d Coquet (1724) by Mary Davys (1674-1727), The Female Quixote (1752) by Charlotte Lennox (c. 1729-1804), Evelina (1778) by Frances Burney (1752-1840), and Nature and Art (1796) by Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821). I argue that the satirical novels by women writers in this period demonstrate women’s active participation in the satiric tradition, which is generally regarded as d
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Aschkenes, Deborah. "In the Mind's Eye: Associationism and Style in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel." Thesis, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8Z89BFV.

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In the Mind's Eye: Associationism and Style in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel argues that the British novel, in its syntactic, grammatical, and rhetorical strategies, incorporated associationist premises about reading comprehension. Associationism, as a term, encapsulates a series of theories during the period that attempted to explain the ways in which external stimuli were "represented" in the mind and linked with other ideas. Inquiries into the association of ideas spanned numerous fields but shared a core belief: everything an individual touched, saw, smelled, or read, was translat
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Lee, Janet Min. "How Allegories Mean in the Novel: From Personification to Impersonation in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction." Thesis, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8RF5T6V.

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This dissertation analyzes the legacy of Protestant allegory in eighteenth-century fictions. In doing so, the dissertation shows that personifications and allegorically inflected characters became increasingly opaque and vulnerable to charges of impersonation as the novel developed in the early and middle eighteenth century. I attribute the distortion of allegorical representation to the conflicting yet intermeshed interpretive frameworks that allegory and the novel demand of their readers. For evidence, I primarily analyze John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim Progress, Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub,
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""A certain innate taste for virtue": The paragon reader and the eighteenth-century British sentimental novel." Tulane University, 1992.

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One of the most important literary conventions of the eighteenth century was the perception of a reading audience endowed with differing capacities to apprehend virtue. This hierarchy included reprobates as well as readers who needed only to reinforce a partially intact moral sense. Additionally, writers posited readers whose sensibilities already were completely perfected. Writers of sentimental novels often adopted techniques such as fragmented narratives to cater to this myriad of readers. Consequently, narrative hiatus, which often is seen merely as an attempt to represent emotion, became
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Bondhus, Charles Michael. "Gothic Journeys: Imperialist Discourse, the Gothic Novel, and the European Other." 2010. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/203.

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In 1790s England, an expanding empire, a growing diaspora of English settlers in foreign territories, and spreading political unrest in Ireland and on the European continent all helped to contribute to a destabilization of British national identity. With the definition of “Englishperson” in flux, Ireland, France, and Italy—nations which are prominently featured in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams (1794), Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest (1791), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), and The Italian (1797), and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)—could be understood, similar to England’s colon
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