TY - BOOK AU - Laden,Marie-Paule TI - Self-Imitation in the Eighteenth-Century Novel T2 - Princeton Legacy Library SN - 9780691609607 AV - PQ637.F57 L3 1987eb U1 - 843/.5/0923 19 PY - 2014///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Comparative literature KW - English and French KW - French and English KW - English fiction KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - Fiction KW - Technique KW - First person narrative KW - French fiction KW - Imitation in literature KW - Self in literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER ONE. Gil Bias and Moll Flanders Imitation, Disguise, and Mask --; CHAPTER TWO. Pamela, La Vie de Marianne, and Le Paysan parvenu: Self-Imitation-The Appearance of Reality --; CHAPTER THREE. Tristram Shandy Imitation as Paradox and Joke --; CONCLUSION --; APPENDIX --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - To the linguistic inquiry associated with Benveniste and to the current preoccupation with the nature of writing. Professor Laden joins a more philosophical probing of the nature of the self. At issue is how language serves the self and whether its role is one of presentation, representation, or generation. The author argues that the self in the works she analyzes comes to appear'' either as a void or as a series of related verbal constructs never wholly adequate or unified.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400858453 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400858453 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400858453.jpg ER -