Douglas Brooks
Broschiertes Buch

Number and Pattern in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Defoe, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne

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Numerological patterning in literature, where structural details of a literary work are symbolically related to its meaning on the verbal level, was particularly common from the Middle Ages up to the seventeenth century. Originally published in 1973, the author breaks new ground in revealing that familiarity with this technique lived on into the eighteenth century, supplying the more artistically aware of the early British novelists with meaningful formal guidelines. An account is given of the origins and continuity of the numerological tradition in Western European - and particularly English ...