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| Foreword | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Serious Reflections on The Rise of the Novel | 1 |
| 2 | The Augustan Age | 20 |
| 3 | The Ironic Voice | 37 |
| 4 | Publishers and Sinners: The Augustan View | 51 |
| 5 | Flat-Footed and Fly-Blown: The Realities of Realism | 70 |
| 6 | Defoe as Novelist | 92 |
| 7 | The Novelist as Innovator: Samuel Richardson | 106 |
| 8 | On Reading Joseph Andrews | 117 |
| 9 | The Comic Syntax of Tristram Shandy | 126 |
| 10 | Time and Family in the Gothic Novel: The Castle of Otranto | 143 |
| 11 | Jane Austen and the Traditions of Comic Aggression | 159 |
| 12 | Oral Dickens | 171 |
| 13 | The First Paragraph of The Ambassadors: An Explication | 194 |
| 14 | Winston Smith: The Last Humanist | 216 |
| 15 | The Humanities on the River Kwai | 229 |
| Index | 255 |
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Stephen Jackson
reviewed The literal imagination on March 14, 2009
The literal imagination
Engaging and colorful but not quite what I wanted. It works better as lay history than literary analysis. I wanted more about the language, more about the ties between landscape and myth, the folk and the lore. Maybe read this in concurrence with Ackroyd's Albion?
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