Death in the eighteenth-century novel, 1740-1800
<p>This thesis examines the development of the novel in the eighteenth century in relation to changing attitudes to death, and looks at how far shifting notions of the moral purpose of the novel and subsequent changes in its treatment of deathbed scenes, murders, duels, suicides and speculati...
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Format: | Thesis |
Language: | English |
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1986
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