The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

John Richetti editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:5th Sep '96

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A comprehensive and innovative guide to the British novel in its formative decades.

Drawing on new research in social and political history, and offering detailed readings of key texts, this multifaceted picture of the British novel in its formative decades provides an indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century novel and its place within the culture of its time.In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.

' … this is a collection that students of the English novel of this period will find useful as an introduction and as a guide to current opinion'. Forum for Modern Language Studies

ISBN: 9780521429450

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 19mm

Weight: 490g

300 pages