{"product_id":"9781421438832","title":"Born Yesterday","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween the emergence of the realist novel in the early eighteenth century and the novel's subsequent alignment with self-improvement a century later lies a significant moment when novelistic characters were unlikely to mature in any meaningful way. That adolescent protagonists poised on the cusp of adulthood resisted a headlong tumble into maturity through the workings of plot reveals a curious literary and philosophical counter-tradition in the history of the novel. Stephanie Insley Hershinow's \u003ci\u003eBorn Yesterday\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the archetype of the early realist novice reveals literary character tout court. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough new readings of canonical novels by Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, Hershinow severs the too-easy tie between novelistic form and character formation, a conflation, she argues, of \u003ci\u003eBild\u003c\/i\u003e with \u003ci\u003eBildung\u003c\/i\u003e. A pop-culture-infused epilogue illustrates the influence of the eighteenth-century novice, as embodied by Austen's \u003ci\u003eEmma\u003c\/i\u003e, in the 1995 film \u003ci\u003eClueless\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as in dystopian YA works like \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger Games\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on bold close readings, \u003ci\u003eBorn Yesterday\u003c\/i\u003e alters the landscape of literary historical eighteenth-century studies and challenges some of novel theory's most well-worn assumptions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185307517202,"sku":"9781421438832","price":59.68,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/3093\/4173\/files\/9781421438832.jpg?v=1774734979","url":"https:\/\/bargainbooks.com.au\/products\/9781421438832","provider":"Bargain Books Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}