An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Raising the Novel
Published on 26. July 2001
Book
Hardback
XI, 317 pages
978-0-333-77624-7 (ISBN)
Description
An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction deals with fiction of the 'long eighteenth century', using a clearly defined pool of texts and corpus of writers. The first part of the study discusses the broader issues of definitions and approaches, genre and gender, and canon formation; the second part, after a more general discussion of Richardson and Fielding, offers a series of five paired readings, juxtaposing texts by Behn and Defoe, Sterne and Smollett, Lennox and Burney, Radcliffe and Godwin and Austen.
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Edition
2001
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
601 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-77624-7 (9780333776247)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-230-62946-2
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
JOHN SKINNER is Professor of English at the University of Turku, Finland.
Content
Preface.- PART ONE: RAISING THE NOVEL.- Critics and Theorists.- Sounding the Canon.- Genre and Gender.- Two Literary Parabolas (i): Richardson from Familiar Letters to Grandison.- Two Literary Parabolas (ii): Fielding from Jonathan Wild to Amelia.- PART TWO: FICTIONAL PERSPECTIVES FROM BEHN TO AUSTEN.- Behn's Oroonoko and Defoe's Moll Flanders.- Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Smollett's Humphry Clinker.- Lennox's The Female Quixote and Burney's Evelina.- Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Godwin's Caleb Williams.- Austen's Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park.- Notes.- Appendix A: Mrs Barbauld's The British Novelists.- Appendix B: The Dictionary of Literary Biography.- Appendix C: The Chadwyck Healey Database.- Bibliography.- Index.