The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521862523 ISBN 13: 9780521862523

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable range of popular works from the period have been re-discovered and reread intensively. This Companion offers an overview of British fiction written between roughly the mid-1760s and the early 1830s and is an ideal guide to the major authors, historical and cultural contexts, and later critical reception. The contributors to this volume represent the most up-to-date directions in scholarship, charting the ways in which the period's social, political and intellectual redefinitions created new fictional subjects, forms and audiences.

About this title

Book Description:

The novel of the Romantic period has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. This Companion offers an overview of British fiction written between the mid-1760s and the early 1830s and is an ideal guide to the major authors, historical and cultural contexts, and later critical reception.

About the Author:

Richard Maxwell is Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521862523
• ISBN 13: 9780521862523
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 308
• Editor: Maxwell Richard, Trumpener Katie