In Praise of Fiction
Prefaces to Romances and Novels, 1650-1760
By (author) B. Millet
Prefaces are perhaps the most original and intriguing genres of commentary on early modern fiction in English. Surprisingly, the front materials of the ‘lesser’ fictional texts published between 1650 and 1760 have not yet received the scholarly attention they deserve, and have been only selectively reprinted so far. The purpose of this anthology is to make many of these prefaces available, including a number of texts authored by translators and editors of fiction published in English translation during this period. An introductory essay proposes a typology of the various strategies of legitimization of narrative prose fiction in early modern Britain, through an examination of the recurrent tropes and codes of the genre. It suggests that prefaces to narrative prose fiction in English played a key role in the emergence of a new status for fiction in the years that have traditionally been associated with accounts of the ‘origins’ of the ‘novel’.
- By (author) B. Millet
"As eighteenth-centruy studies continue to research the novel within the context of other modes of writing with differing relationshps with fictionality, this anthology of prefaces offers extensive, engaging material." --Angelina Del Balzo, Eighteenth-Century Fiction
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Other Titles in this Series
Préfaces romanesques
Actes du XVe colloque international de la SATOR Leuven-Anvers, 22-24 mai 2003
Volume 23
Paris 1713: l’année des «Illustres Françaises»
Actes du 10ème colloque international des 9, 10 et 11 décembre 2013 organisé à l'initiative de la Société des Amis de Robert Challe à la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal et en Sorbonne
Volume 64
Eros, logos, dialogos
Huit etudes sur l'enonciation romanesque de Charles Sorel a Germaine de Stael
Volume 30
L’assiette des fictions
Enquetes sur l'autoreflexivite romanesque. Actes des colloques de Lausanne (mars 2007) et de Louvain (juin 2007)
Volume 38
La relation entre «pacte» et «tabou» dans le discoursautobiographique en France (1750-1850)
Volume 63
«Ceci n’est pas un roman»
L'évolution du statut de la fiction en Angleterre de 1652 à 1754
Volume 31
Les Illustres Francaises apocryphes
L'Histoire de Monsieur le comte de Vallebois et de Mademoiselle Charlotte de Pontais son epouse et autres nouvelles
Volume 45
Le mariage et la loi dans la fiction narrative avant 1800
Actes du XXIe colloque de la Sator Universite Denis-Diderot Paris 7 - 27-30 juin, 2007
Volume 53
De branche en branche. Etudes sur les XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles francais
'Etudes reunies et presentees par Kris Peeters, Paul Pelckmans, Luc Rasson et Bruno Tritsmans'
Volume 26
Jean Potocki – oeuvres II
Voyage à Astrakan et sur la ligne de Caucase - Mémoire sur l'ambassade en Chine - Objets de recherche - Sophio-polis
Volume 12
Le manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse et ses intertextes
Actes du colloque international, Louvain-Anvers, 30 mars-1 avril 2000
Volume 3
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