Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

This book analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the eighteenth-century. The contributors address issues such as subjectivity, performance, voice, narrative time, character development and genre, placing their readings of early modern prose texts within the diachronic frame of the overall topic. Individual chapters will treat texts from a variety of genres, offering analyses of individual texts in the context of changes and developments within literary forms. The book in its entirety will cover a period of approximately 350 years, from 1370 to 1720.

Author: Gerd Bayer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/10/2014
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781138849945

About the Author

Gerd Bayer is Senior Lecturer in the English department at Erlangen University, Germany.

Ebbe Klitgard is Associate Professor of British Studies at Roskilde University.