A Novel in Ruins: Thomas Amory's Antiquarianism.
This essay considers Thomas Amory's Memoirs of the Lives of Several Ladies of Great Britain (1755) and The Life and Opinions of John Buncle, Esq. (1756) as experiments in the novel form. Amory's novels flout many of the genre's central conventions--like plot and character development--and instead pr...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 34; pp. 517 - 546 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Fall2022 Supplement
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