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Author Lipski, Jakub, author

Title In quest of the self : masquerade and travel in the Eighteenth-Century novel : Fielding, Smollett, Sterne / Jakub Lipski
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
Series Consciousness, literature & the arts, 1573-2193 ; 42
Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 42. 1573-2193
Contents Preliminary Material -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- The Discourse of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fiction -- Fielding's Travellers -- The Masquerading World -- Joseph and Tom in the Masquerading World -- Smollett's Travellers -- Roderick's and Peregrine's Protean Identities -- The Masquerading Protagonists -- Tradition and Novelty in Yorick's Journey -- The Poetics of Mask and Sentiment -- Yorick as a Polyphonic Character -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary In recent decades the masquerade has enjoyed a revival in literary and cultural studies. It has been seen as a symptom of the irrational trends permeating the Age of Reason and as a sign of the instability, arbitrariness as well as non-essentiality of personal identity; notions testifying to affinities between the eighteenth century and our own time. In Quest of the Self offers a new consideration not only of the masquerade as such, but also of the ways in which it was transposed into literature during the period. Here it emerges as a dominant trope governing the poetics and the ideological dimensions of selected eighteenth-century novels by Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett and Laurence Sterne. Throughout, the book demonstrates that the travelling protagonists of the novels, metaphorically speaking, take part in the 'masquerade of the world', finding themselves in quest of their own selves and struggling to determine who they really are
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index
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Subject Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 -- Criticism and interpretation
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771 -- Criticism and interpretation
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 fast
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771 fast
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 fast
Fielding, Henry 1707-1754 gnd
Smollett, Tobias George 1721-1771 gnd
Sterne, Laurence 1713-1768 gnd
Andrae, A. gnd
Subject English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Masquerades in literature.
Masquerades -- Great Britain
Travelers -- England -- History -- 18th century
Literature and society -- History -- 18th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction
Literature and society
Manners and customs
Masquerades
Masquerades in literature
Travelers
Kostümball Motiv
Maske Motiv
Reise Motiv
Identitätsfindung Motiv
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056951
Subject England
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789401211727
9401211728
Other Titles Masquerade and travel in the Eighteenth-Century novel : Fielding, Smollett, Sterne