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Intertextuality and Influence | Christine Brooke-Rose | This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen
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Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Gardam | As the title suggests, Polly Flint's chief passion is for Daniel Defoe
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Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Richardson | In this book Richardson's heroine Miriam, now eighteen years old, has returned from Germany and is a resident teacher at Wordsworth House, a school in fictional Banbury Park, North London, run by the Perne... |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Harriet Burney | The Shipwreck presents (with memories of William ShakespeareThe Tempest as well as Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe) Sabor, Peter. “Part of an Englishwoman’s Constitution: Sarah Harriet Burney and Shakespeare”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Muriel Spark | Robinson is the name both of the island and of one of its two long-term occupants, a recluse who has bought the island and exiled himself there out of disillusionment with human society. Behind this... |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | One reviewer noted ASB
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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Carleton | The bigamy scandal generated twenty-six topical publications. It provoked such works as a play by either Thomas Parker
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Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Watts | After the pasted-in pages and a section devoted to Tasso
, the volume moves to a poem modelled on the tabular lists of good and evil in his life that are kept by Defoe
's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Chandler | Her poem played its part in the establishment of Bath as a resort which was respected and fashionable, on both medical and cultural grounds. When James Leake
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Intertextuality and Influence | Cassandra Cooke | In a preface CC
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Literary responses | Harriet Corp | The Critical Review declined to comment on this book or to differentiate it from other religious novels. The Eclectic Review of November 1805, too, found similarities with other recent works, but dignified Interesting Conversations by... |
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