The Cambridge companion to the Eighteenth-Century novel / edited by John Richetti.
| Call Number | 823/.509 |
| Title | The Cambridge companion to the Eighteenth-Century novel / edited by John Richetti. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xiii, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Series | Cambridge companions to literature |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
| Contents | Introduction / The novel and social/cultural history / Defoe as an innovator of fictional form / "Gulliver's travels" and the contracts of fiction / Samuel Richardson : fiction and knowledge / Henry Fielding / Sterne and irregular oratory / Smollett's "Humphry Clinker" / Marginality in Frances Burney's novels / Women writers and the eighteenth-century novel / Sentimental novels / Enlightenment, popular culture, and Gothic fiction / |
| Summary | 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. |
| Added Author | Richetti, John J., editor. |
| Subject | English fiction 18th century History and criticism. |
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| Summary | 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. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
| Contents | Introduction / The novel and social/cultural history / Defoe as an innovator of fictional form / "Gulliver's travels" and the contracts of fiction / Samuel Richardson : fiction and knowledge / Henry Fielding / Sterne and irregular oratory / Smollett's "Humphry Clinker" / Marginality in Frances Burney's novels / Women writers and the eighteenth-century novel / Sentimental novels / Enlightenment, popular culture, and Gothic fiction / |
| Subject | English fiction 18th century History and criticism. |
| Multimedia |