{"product_id":"eighteenth-century-fiction-and-the-reinvention-of-wonder-9780198833789","title":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder","description":"A footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a church steeple. Eighteenth-century fiction brims with moments such as these, in which the prosaic rubs up against the marvelous. While it is a\u003cbr\u003etruism that the period's literature is distinguished by its realism and air of probability, \u003cem\u003eEighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e argues that wonder is integral to--rather than antithetical to--the developing techniques of novelistic fiction. Positioning its reader on the cusp\u003cbr\u003ebetween recognition and estrangement, between faith and doubt, modern fiction hinges upon wonder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eEighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds its new account of fiction's rise through surprising readings of classic early novels--from Daniel Defoe's \u003cem\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/em\u003e to Jane Austen's \u003cem\u003eNorthanger Abbey\u003c\/em\u003e--and brings to attention lesser-known works, most notably Rudolf Raspe's \u003cem\u003eBaron\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMunchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels\u003c\/em\u003e. In this bold new account, the eighteenth century bears witness not to the world's disenchantment but rather to wonder's relocation from the supernatural realm to the empirical world, providing a reevaluation not only of how we look back at the\u003cbr\u003eEnlightenment, but also of how we read today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Tindal Kareem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198833789\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah Tindal Kareem, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSarah Tindal Kareem was born in London to an Indian father and a Scottish mother. After reading English at Girton College, Cambridge, she received her PhD from Harvard University's Department of English in 2003. Postdoctoral fellowships took her to the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science\u003cbr\u003ein Berlin, to UCLA's Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, and to the University of Chicago's Society of Fellows. In 2007 she returned to UCLA and is now Associate Professor in the Department of English where she specializes in literature from the late seventeenth to the early\u003cbr\u003enineteenth century. \u003cem\u003eEighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e is her first book. She lives in Santa Monica, California, with her husband and their two children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39932116467827,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_560b0235-9a7e-46b7-8aac-5dbcde847288.jpg?v=1647790436","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/eighteenth-century-fiction-and-the-reinvention-of-wonder-9780198833789","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}