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The author reads four 18th-century satiric novels-Joseph Andrews, A Sentimental Journey, Humphrey Clinker, and Cecilia-from below, exploring how the gentle authors' experiences of the poor shape the novels both thematically and formally.

Table of Contents
Introduction: gentle and poor on common ground 1. What you seek is nowhere: the comic novel and lower-class literacy 2. A man who laughs is never dangerous: the gentleman's disposition in A Sentimental Journey 3. The satire of melancholia: Humphry Clinker and the agricultural revolution 4. This dream of fancied sorrow: female affectivity and the labouring poor in Frances Burney's Cecilia Conclusion: labour and satire at the century's end Notes Bibliography Index.

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/06/2002
      ISBN13: 9780804741897, 978-0804741897
      ISBN10: 0804741891
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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The author reads four 18th-century satiric novels-Joseph Andrews, A Sentimental Journey, Humphrey Clinker, and Cecilia-from below, exploring how the gentle authors' experiences of the poor shape the novels both thematically and formally.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: gentle and poor on common ground 1. What you seek is nowhere: the comic novel and lower-class literacy 2. A man who laughs is never dangerous: the gentleman's disposition in A Sentimental Journey 3. The satire of melancholia: Humphry Clinker and the agricultural revolution 4. This dream of fancied sorrow: female affectivity and the labouring poor in Frances Burney's Cecilia Conclusion: labour and satire at the century's end Notes Bibliography Index.

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