A companion to the eighteenth-century English novel and culture / edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Backscheider, Paula R.

Ingrassia, Catherine.

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 30.

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

English fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (566 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novelFurnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contextForegrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first centuryExplores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues

Contents:

"I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it": Crusoe's Farther adventures and the unwritten history of the novel / Robert Markley

Fiction/translation/transnation: the secret history of the eighteenth-century novel / Srinivas Aravamudan

Narrative transmigrations: the oriental tale and the novel in eighteenth-century Britain / Ros Ballaster

Age of peregrination: travel writing and the eighteenth-century novel / Elizabeth Bohls

Milton and the poetics of ecstasy in Restoration and eighteenth-century fiction / Robert A. Erickson

Representing resistance: British seduction stories, 1660-1800 / Toni Bowers

Why Fanny can't read: Joseph Andrews and the (ir)relevance of literacy / Paula McDowell

Memory and mobility: fictions of population in Defoe, Goldsmith, and Scott / Charlotte Sussman

The erotics of the novel / James Grantham Turner

The original American novel, or, the American origin of the novel / Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

New contexts for early novels by women: the case of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and the Hillarians, 1719-1725 / Kathryn R. King

Momentary fame: female novelists in eighteenth-century book reviews / Laura Runge

Women, old age, and the eighteenth-century novel / Devoney Looser

Joy and happiness / Adam Potkay

The eighteenth-century novel and print culture: a proposed modesty / Christopher Flint

An emerging new canon of the British eighteenth-century novel: feminist criticism, the means of cultural production, and the question of value / John Richetti

Queer gothic / George E. Haggerty

Conversable fictions / Kathryn Sutherland

Racial legacies: the speaking countenance and the character sketch in the novel / Roxann Wheeler

Home economics: representations of poverty in eighteenth-century fiction / Ruth Perry

Whatever happened to the Gordon riots? / Carol Houlihan Flynn

The novel body politic / Susan S. Lanser

Literary culture as immediate reality / Paula R. Backscheider.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610361984

9781782684510

1782684514

9781280361982

1280361980

9781405165006

1405165006

9780470996232

0470996234

9781405154505

1405154500

OCLC:

184983592