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9780812216103

Factual Fictions

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  • ISBN13:

    9780812216103

  • ISBN10:

    0812216105

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-12-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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"Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted. We've developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real. . . . The value of Davis's book is that it explores the h

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Preface to the Paperback Edition xi
Introduction: Toward a Methodology of Beginnings 1(10)
Frame, Context, Prestructure
11(14)
The Romance: Liminality and Influence
25(17)
News/Novels: The Undifferentiated Matrix
42(29)
Prose News: Continuity, Seriality, and Ideology
71(14)
The Law and the Press: Splitting the Discourse
85(17)
Theories of Fiction in Early English Novels
102(21)
Criminality and the Double Discourse
123(15)
The Language of Print: Embodiment, Legitimation, Signification
138(16)
Daniel Defoe: Lies as Truth
154(20)
Samuel Richardson: Disavowal and Spontaneity
174(19)
Henry Fielding: Politics and Fact
193(19)
Conclusion: Ideology and the Novel
212(13)
Notes 225(18)
Index 243

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