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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReviews ‘Cet ouvrage s’attache à demontrer que les récits en prose, de la Restauration jusqu’au milieu du XVIIIe siècle, sont influencés en profondeur par des techniques empruntées au théâtre’ […] [Il est] très bien étayé sur des sources primaires et secondaires pertinentes’.
RSÉAA XVII-XVIII‘One of the most interesting aspects of Widmayer’s study is her focus on the use of stage space by the four authors [Behn, Nanley, Fielding, Congreve] (…) but to different effects.’
Papers on Language and LiteratureTable of ContentsIntroduction
1. Aphra Behn’s dramatic techniques in prose: credibility and female poweri. Behn’s and Southerne’s
Oroonokos: individuals and groups
ii. Parallels between the narrator and Oroonoko
iii. Echoes of
Rover I2. Performed emotion in Delarivier Manley’s works: actors and voyeursi. Discovering emotion in Manley’s plays
ii. Scenes in Manley’s prose
iii. Validating female emotion in
Memoirs of Europe and
The Power of love3. Hybrid dramatic-narrative techniques: William Congreve’s Incognita and The Old batchelori. Staging lovers in Dryden’s
Assignation and Congreve’s
Incognitaii. Scarron’s influence upon
Incognitaiii. Heartwell as satirical commentator in
The Old batchelor4. Abandoning control over ‘reality’: author-characters in Henry Fielding’s playsi. The satirist satirized in Fielding’s author-character plays
ii. Author-characters as Fielding’s theatrical avatars
5. Self-conscious anti-realism: readers as actor-authors in Henry Fielding’s prosei. Fielding’s self-ironizing author-characters
ii. Novel characters who comment metatheatrically
6. ConclusionBibliography
Index
