The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521419085 ISBN 13: 9780521419086

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

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. 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. 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.

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Twelve contributors challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. 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.

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This multifaceted picture of the 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521419085
• ISBN 13: 9780521419086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Richetti John