{"product_id":"common-ground-9780804741897","title":"Common Ground","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: 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.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405545873751,"sku":"9780804741897","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804741897.jpg?v=1730492786","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/common-ground-9780804741897","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}