Abstract
This essay brings together cognitive literary theory and Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogic imagination to illuminate the construction of social class in the eighteenth-century novel. It offers a close reading of selected passages from Frances Burney's Evelina (1778), made possible by combining Bakhtinian and cognitive poetics. It also discusses the theoretical ramifications of this approach and demonstrates its use in an undergraduate classroom.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 109-126 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Eighteenth-Century Fiction |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 1 2017 |
Bibliographical note
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Literature and Literary Theory