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Character & consciousness in eighteenth-century comic fiction

Examines the kind of consciousness central to comic novels of the 18th century. The author asserts that it is individual identity conceived in social terms - a character's search for his or her place in a precarious social order.
Print Book, English, ©1992
University of Georgia Press, Athens, ©1992
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 202 pages ; 24 cm
9780820313658, 0820313653
23143843
The eighteenth-century character and the twentieth-century reader
"The most intimate of all perceptions": The character of consciousness in the eighteenth century
The Sui Generis topos
Narrative authority and the controlling consciousness in Fielding's Tom Jones
The female Quixote and narrative alternative
Tristram Shandy and the parody of consciousness
Peregrine Pickle and the present moment of consciousness
Fanny Burney and the consciousness of character
Spine title: Character and consciousness in eighteenth-century comic fiction