Written for the very audience it portrays, "The Excursion" introduces the heroine, Maria Villiers, to London's "gentle" society and its glittering pastimes. Brooke drew upon the English courtship novel in the tradition of Elize Haywood and Henry Fielding for her novel's plot structure.
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"A valuable addition to the range of texts currently available." -- "British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies"
"A valuable addition to the range of texts currently available." -- British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
-A valuable addition to the range of texts currently available.- -- British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Paula R. Backsheider is Pepperell-Philpott Eminent Scholar in English at Auburn University and the author of numerous books, including Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England.Hope D. Cotton is a doctoral student in English at Auburn University.
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