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Englische Literatur in der Göttinger Universitätsbibliothek des 18. Jahrhunderts : Ausstellung der niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen vom 26.9 - 29.11.1988
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ISBN: 3525854595 Year: 1988 Publisher: Goettingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,

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Annals of English drama 975-1700 : an analytical record of all plays, extant or lost, chronologically arranged and indexed by authors, titles, dramatic companies
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ISBN: 0415010993 Year: 1989 Publisher: London Routledge


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Utopian geographies and the early English novel
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ISBN: 0813936241 9781322076461 1322076464 9780813936246 9780813936239 0813936233 Year: 2014 Publisher: Charlottesville University of Virginia Press

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"This book considers how writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries engaged critically and creatively with the idea of utopia--in particular the idea of utopia as a geographic location--and how questions about world geography and utopian possibility drove many of the formal innovations of the early English novel. Works examined include Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Captain Singleton, and Swift's Gulliver's Travels"--


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Eighteenth-century fiction and the reinvention of wonder
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ISBN: 9780199689101 0199689105 1322222738 0198833784 0191003123 0191802026 9781322222738 9780191003127 9780191802027 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford

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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's chapters unfold its new account of fiction's rise through surprising new readings of classic early novels-from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey-as well as bringing 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 re-location from the supernatural realm to the empirical world, providing a re-evaluation not only of how we look back at the Enlightenment, but also of how we read today.

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