Reading: 18th C and Narrative Voice

[sartorias]

I realized from an early age that rereading meant the book would change. One knew what would happen, so the surprise was gone, but if one could anticipate favorite scenes, savoring set in

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[lnhammer]

Cibber doesn't come off well in the Dunciad, either.

I never did make it through either Shamela, and Pamela only abridged. Ditto Clarissa for that matter, but I liked it well enough I have the complete waiting for a spare couple weeks. Tom Jones is a fave, though - that's a good-un.

---L.

[sartorias]

I love Tom Jones--and Humphrey Clinker as well, to bring in Smollett.

[lnhammer]

Clinker was good, too. I need to read more Smollett. And all the rest of those guys. I'm much better grounded in Austen's contemporaries and immediate predecessors than earlier.

---L.

[lnhammer]

Well, not really. Not even the author. Or maybe that's "especially not."

---L.