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  • 1 - Truth Postures in the Novel of the Long Eighteenth Century

  • from Part I
  • Nicholas D. Paige, University of California, Berkeley
  • Book:
    Technologies of the Novel
    Published online:
    06 November 2020
    Print publication:
    19 November 2020, pp 17-40

  • Summary

    This chapter describes in more detail the truth pretense characterizing the eighteenth-century novel, and summarizes the theories that have been advanced to explain it. It then lays out a series of classificatory tags capable of covering all truth postures of the period (broadly, the Aristotelian, the pseudofactual, and the invented). The balance of the chapter presents the data, showing that the decline in the truth posture over the years 1681-1830, while indisputable, does not match what one would expect if previous explanations were valid.