Literary comparisons: Social dynamics and the eighteenth-century British novel (B05+)

英国小说是十八世纪文化变革公共谈判中的一个重要因素。特别是，人物之间在内容和叙事形式层面上的显性和隐性的文学比较在唤起、评论和评价当代社会比较实践方面发挥了重要作用。因此，这部小说不仅记录了社会变革，而且创造性地探索了英国社会内部比较的方面和标准--这种探索反馈到了社会话语中。该项目是在18世纪现代化的历史进程的背景下，研究这种文学和社会比较实践的交叉。

The British novel was an important factor in the public negotiation of cultural change during the eighteenth century. In particular, explicit and implicit literary comparisons between characters on the levels of both content and narrative form played an important role by evoking, commenting on, and evaluating contemporary social practices of comparison. Thus, the novel did not merely document social change, but creatively explored aspects and criteria of comparison within British society – an exploration that fed back into social discourse. The project is investigating this intersection of literary and social practices of comparison against the backdrop of historical processes of modernization in the 18th century.