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The Inn and the Traveller : Digressive Topographies in the Early Modern European Novel

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Overview

In the landscape of the early modern European comic novel the inn often features as a monument to digression - the perfect setting for chance encounters with strangers who always have a story to tell. This wide-ranging comparative study explores the special part played by the inn, tracing the progress of a succession of wayward heroes and narrators in five canonical texts: Cervantes's "Don Quijote", Scarron's "Roman comique", Fielding's "Joseph Andrews" and "Tom Jones", Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" and Diderot's "Jacques le fataliste". As this celebration of digressive fiction unfolds, a very different picture emerges of the novel's rise and development.

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Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781900755641
  • ISBN-10: 1900755645
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: November 2002
  • Dimensions: 6.34 x 7.84 x 0.61 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.94 pounds
  • Page Count: 292

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