A Patch-work Screen : la preuve par le manuscrit

In 1723, Jacobite writer Jane Barker published a sequel to her first autobiographical novel Love Intrigues, shifting from a straightforward monodic narrative to a hybrid « patch-work » of manuscript poems and vividly realistic reminiscences, set in a whimsical framing narrative. This paper examines...

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Main Author: Constance Lacroix
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 2013-12-01
Series:XVII-XVIII
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/1718/529
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description In 1723, Jacobite writer Jane Barker published a sequel to her first autobiographical novel Love Intrigues, shifting from a straightforward monodic narrative to a hybrid « patch-work » of manuscript poems and vividly realistic reminiscences, set in a whimsical framing narrative. This paper examines the interplay between print and manuscript as a response to the major narrative challenges of the Gildon / Defoe controversy and of the South Sea Bubble, after which commercial literature and speculative imagination were viewed with more than ordinary suspicion.
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spelling doaj.art-f8071c9d0ba74b7381e9787b63f6f47f2022-12-21T23:16:56ZengSociété d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe sièclesXVII-XVIII0291-37982117-590X2013-12-017024726410.4000/1718.529A Patch-work Screen : la preuve par le manuscritConstance LacroixIn 1723, Jacobite writer Jane Barker published a sequel to her first autobiographical novel Love Intrigues, shifting from a straightforward monodic narrative to a hybrid « patch-work » of manuscript poems and vividly realistic reminiscences, set in a whimsical framing narrative. This paper examines the interplay between print and manuscript as a response to the major narrative challenges of the Gildon / Defoe controversy and of the South Sea Bubble, after which commercial literature and speculative imagination were viewed with more than ordinary suspicion.http://journals.openedition.org/1718/529
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