Eighteenth Century Narrative Variations on “Frol Skobeev”

Slavic Review ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 46 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 529-539
Author(s):  
Gitta Hammarberg
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Narrative Prose ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Century Development

One of the most striking innovations in late eighteenth century prose fiction was the introduction of a distinct narrator's voice. To throw some light on the emergence of this innovation, I will compare three works: “Povest’ o Frole Skobeeve,“ an anonymous work from the 1720s; Ivan Novikov's “Novgorodskikh devushek sviatochnyi vecher,” which appeared in a 1785 collection of his short stories; and Nikolai Karamzin's “Natal'ia, boiarskaia doch',” which appeared serially in his Moskovskii zhurnal in 1792. These works will be viewed as representative of three stages in the eighteenth century development of narrative prose structure.

scholarly journals Melodrama and Narrative Fiction: Towards a Typology

2014 ◽  
Vol 132 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Straub
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Prose Narratives ◽  
Narrative Prose ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Abstract Recent research on melodrama has stressed its versatility and ubiquity by approaching it as a mode of expression rather than a theatrical genre. A variety of contexts in which melodrama is at work have been explored, but only little scholarly attention has been paid to the relationship between melodrama and novels, short stories and novellas. This article proposes a typology of melodrama in narrative prose fiction, examining four different categories: Melodrama and Sentimentalism, Depiction of Melodramatic Performances in Narrative Prose Fiction, Theatrical Antics and Aesthetics in Narrative Prose Fiction and Meta-Melodrama. Its aim is to clarify the ways in which melodrama, ever since its early days on the stages of late eighteenth-century Europe, has interacted with fictional prose narratives, thereby shaping the literary imagination in the Anglophone world.

The Ghost of Sendivogius

2018 ◽  
pp. 452-481
Author(s):  
William R. Newman
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sulfur Content ◽  
Phlogiston Theory ◽  
Chemical Revolution ◽  
Refractive Power ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Graphic Representations ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Century Development ◽  
Affinity Tables

This chapter builds on Newton's increasing interest in sulfur, placing his theories in the context of developments within the chymical community of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It provides a new look at Newton's developing ideas about affinity and his role in the eighteenth-century development of affinity tables, the graphic representations of selective attractions by materials that cause those with less affinity to precipitate. Newton's attribution of refractive power to the sulfur content of illuminated materials justifies the view that he held a chymical theory of light. Nor did this fact escape his successors. In the years directly before the Chemical Revolution of the late eighteenth century, European chymists tried to push Newton's chymistry of light further by attaching his linkage of refractivity and sulfur to the phlogiston theory championed by Georg Ernst Stahl.

Corpulent Cattle and Milk Machines: Nature, Art and the Ideal Type

1993 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Moving Targets ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Century Development ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractThe concept of a "breed" of domestic cattle is predominantly a social construct. The late eighteenth century development of intensive selective (in)breeding of livestock produced breeds that were visually distinguishable from each other. The adoption of breed standards was facilitated in part through paintings and drawings of idealized animals. These "ideal types" or "standards of perfection" further served as targets for breeders who attempted to achieve the artist's conception of the perfect animal. However, concepts of perfection change with fashion and thus ideal types constitute moving targets.

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