Making the Novel
Fiction and Society in Britain, 1660-1789
Published on 3. January 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-333-62854-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book advances a new cultural reading of the formation of the British novel. Rejecting a teleological narrative of the genre's 'rise' and through close analysis of key texts, the authors present a dynamic picture of the emergence of the novel, which focuses upon formal innovation, social engagement, and artistic and commercial competition.
Reviews / Votes
'A wide-ranging and sophisticated study of the novel that neatly combines a survey of the history and theory of the novel with a series of insightful readings of some of the major works of the eighteenth-century. Best of all, it's unfailingly lively and readable and brings the eighteenth-century novel to life.' - Jack Lynch, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA '...[a] thorough and engaging account of the British novel's evolution over the course of the long eighteenth century...The connections forged by Making the Novel bring the period, in all its delightful weirdness, to life - no mean feat.' - Modern PhilologyMore details
Edition
2006
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
401 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-62854-6 (9780333628546)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-230-80223-0
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Book
01/2006
Red Globe Press
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Persons
BREAN HAMMOND is Professor of English at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of numerous books and articles on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing, including Professional Imaginative Writing in England 1670-1740 (1997). He is a former President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
SHAUN REGAN is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He has published articles on Sterne, print culture, and the culture of politeness. He was formerly a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin.
SHAUN REGAN is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He has published articles on Sterne, print culture, and the culture of politeness. He was formerly a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin.
Content
Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Modelling the Novel.- Missing Parts: Fiction to Defoe.- Novels and Anti-Novels: Contesting Fictions.- Teaching Readers to Read: Richardson and Fielding.- Renewing the Novel: Novelty, Originality, and New Directions.- The Sympathetic Strain: Sterne and Sentimental Fiction.- Narrating the Nation: Leisure, Luxury, and Politeness.- Conclusion: Making the Novel, Reading the Novel.- Bibliography.- Index.