This study examines the autobiographical writing of Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, and David Hume, who chronicled the peculiarly intimate relationships between the texts they produced and the social lives they lived. Each relied on a language of feeling to represent social bonds they considered necessary, discovering, through their writing, a sociability dependent on the communication of passions and sentiments. This discovery, Mullan argues, played a critical role in the development of the eighteenth-century fiction now called sentimental.

Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Literature & Fiction

Mullan, John

British & Irish

Clarendon Press

Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, "Elements of Fiction," John Mullan offers an engaging look at the novel, focusing mostly on works of the last ten years as he illuminates the rich resources of novelistic technique. Mullan sheds light on some of the true masterworks of contemporary fiction, including Monica Ali's Brick Lane, J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Don DeLillo's Underworld, Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Patricia Highsmith's Ripley under Ground, Ian McEwan's Atonement, John le Carré's The Constant Gardener, Philip Roth's The Human Stain, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth. He highlights how these acclaimed authors use some of the basic elements of fiction. Some topics (like plot, dialogue, or location) will appear familiar to most novel readers, while others (meta-narrative, prolepsis, amplification) will open readers' eyes to new ways of understanding and appreciating the writer's craft. Mullan also excels at comparing modern and classic authors--Nick Hornby's adoption of a female narrator is compared to Daniel Defoe's; Ian McEwan's use of weather is set against Austen's and Hardy's. How Novels Work explains how the pleasures of novel reading often come from the formal ingenuity of the novelist, making visible techniques and effects we are often only half-aware of as we read. It is an entertaining and stimulating volume that will captivate anyone who is interested in the contemporary or the classical novel.

How Novels Work

Contemporary

Oxford University Press

Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, "Elements of Fiction" John Mullan offers an engaging look at the novel, focusing mostly on works of the last ten years as he illuminates the rich resources of novelistic technique. Mullan sheds light on some of the true masterworks of contemporary fiction, including Monica Ali's Brick Lane, J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Don DeLillo's Underworld, Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Patricia Highsmith's Ripley under Ground, Ian McEwan's Atonement, John le Carré's The Constant Gardener, Philip Roth's The Human Stain, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth. He highlights how these acclaimed authors use some of the basic elements of fiction. Some topics (like plot, dialogue, or location) will appear familiar to most novel readers, while others (meta-narrative, prolepsis, amplification) will open readers' eyes to new ways of understanding and appreciating the writer's craft. Mullan also excels at comparing modern and classic authors-Nick Hornby's adoption of a female narrator is compared to Daniel Defoe's; Ian McEwan's use of weather is set against Austen's and Hardy's. How Novels Work explains how the pleasures of novel reading often come from the formal ingenuity of the novelist, making visible techniques and effects we are often only half-aware of as we read. It is an entertaining and stimulating volume that will captivate anyone who is interested in the contemporary or the classical novel.

History & Criticism

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections  such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,  or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,  have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works  worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.    ++++  The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:  ++++   Miners And Travelers' Guide To Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, And Colorado: Via The Missouri And Columbia Rivers John Mullan W.M. Franklin, 1865 Frontier and pioneer life; Gold mines and mining; Mines and mineral resources; Northwest, Pacific; Northwestern States; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Silver mines and mining; West (U.S.)

Miners and travelers' guide to Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado,: Via the Missouri and Columbia rivers (The Far Western frontier)

Arno Press

Some of the greatest works in English literature were first published without their authors' names. Why did so many authors want to be anonymous--and what was it like to read their books without knowing for certain who had written them? In Anonymity, John Mullan gives a fascinating and original history of hidden identity in English literature. From the sixteenth century to today, he explores how the disguises of writers were first used and eventually penetrated, how anonymity teased readers and bamboozled critics--and how, when book reviews were also anonymous, reviewers played tricks of their own in return.
 Today we have forgotten that the first readers of Gulliver's Travels and Sense and Sensibility had to guess who their authors might be, and that writers like Sir Walter Scott and Charlotte Brontë went to elaborate lengths to keep secret their authorship of the best-selling books of their times. But, in fact, anonymity is everywhere in English literature. Spenser, Donne, Marvell, Defoe, Swift, Fanny Burney, Austen, Byron, Thackeray, Lewis Carroll, Tennyson, George Eliot, Sylvia Plath, and Doris Lessing--all hid their names. With great lucidity and wit, Anonymity tells the stories of these and many other writers, providing a fast-paced, entertaining, and informative tour through the history of English literature.

Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature

Humor & Satire

Princeton University Press

Report on the Construction of a Military Road from Fort Walla Walla to Fort Benton

History

Military

Ye Galleon Pr

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865. Excerpt: ... Rocky Mountains, and flowing thousands of miles into two oceans, must ever enter as essential and economical elements into trade, travel, and railroad construction across the continent. The Columbia is the only stream that rises in the main chain of the Rocky Mountains, breaking through the coast range and emptying into the Pacific. The large watercourses, with their great net-work of tributaries, lying between the 44th and 49th degrees of north latitude, must ever cause this region to enjoy facilities given by nature to no other west of the Mississippi. These large bodies of water tend to modify the climate, supply mill sites, water farms, and grazing fields; enable the miner to work miles of sluice-boxes, the merchant to float, by steam, his wares to the very heart of the Rocky range, and stand ever ready and panting to be converted into steam for the iron horse that must soon invade their dominions. MOUNTAIN SYSTEM. The early geographers who attempted the mapping of the country west of the Mississippi left us a very vague and erroneous outline of the Rocky Mountain formation, or the direction of the vast system of spurs that go to form them. The dividing ridge of the Rocky range was nearly always represented as a right line trending from northwest to southeast from our northern boundary to New Mexico. This right line has, however, disappeared from our maps, as explorations have brought in from year to year the results of their researches. The greatest deviation from a right line that occurs in close proximity to our road exists from the head of Deer Lodge Valley to the Wind River chain, where the mountains enclose in a large reentering angle the Big Hole Valley. I look forward to seeing this section become a great centre both for mining and agricultura...

Miners and Travelers' Guide to Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado, Via the Missouri and Columbia Rivers

Travel

United States

Miners And Travelers' Guide To Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, And Colorado: Via The Missouri And Columbia Rivers

Americas

Legare Street Press

Reports to Hon. George Stoneman, Governor of California

Literary

BiblioLife

The memoirs in this collection are written by those who had personal knowledge of Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth, or who claimed to be recording the accounts of those who had such knowledge. Each volume in this set contains facsimilies of the original memoirs.

Lives of the Great Romantics, Part I, Volume 1: Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth by Their Contemporaries

Biographies & Memoirs

HART, Chris

Swaab, Peter

Reference & Collections

Routledge

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