Refining the Self: Novels in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Author: Huang Mei
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Features: Sanlian·Harvard-Yenching Academic Series. This book provides a comprehensive review of major novelists, key works, literary trends, and contributions of British and Western fiction from the early stages of the rise of modern British novels in the 17th century to the first flourishing of British novels in the 18th century over more than a hundred years. It includes and comments on important critical opinions from Western scholars, particularly Anglo-American scholars, on these writers and works from different perspectives and angles, and proposes its own views. In the specific review, the author demonstrates outstanding skills in interpreting texts and analyzing characters, revealing all the multi-layered meanings of the texts, thereby serving as a classic appreciation.