Neo-Georgian fiction : reimagining the eighteenth century in the contemporary historical novel / edited by Jakub Lipski and Joanna Maciulewicz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lipski, Jakub, editor.

Maciulewicz, Joanna, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge focus on literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical fiction, English--History and criticism.

Historical fiction, English.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Great Britain--In literature.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 128 pages) : color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Jakub Lipski is Associate Professor of Anglophone Literatures at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. His research interests include eighteenth-century English fiction and culture, the correspondences between word and image, and reception and adaptation studies. He is the author of In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (2014), Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (2018) and editor of Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media (2020). Joanna Maciulewiczis Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. She is the author of Representations of Book Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Imaginative Writing (2018). Her research interests focus on eighteenth-century literature and culture, the history of the book and the theory of early English, Spanish and Polish fiction. She is an assistant editor of Studia Anglica Posnaniensia.

Contents:

Introduction: Delineating the neo-Georgian / Jakub Lipski and Joanna Maciulewicz

Peter Ackroyd's neo-Georgian fiction : reconstructing "the Age of Disguise" / Jakub Lipski

Defoe's foes : the author as character / Daniel Cook

Beyond terracentric history : eighteenth-century slave trade in Barry Unsworth's Sacred hunger / Przemysław Uściński

"Whose pictur'd morals charm the mind

And through the eye correct the heart" : re-writing the pictorial narrative of A harlot's progress / M-C. Newbould

The blind man and the rainbow : vicarious experience and libertinism in The skull and the nightingale / Tymon Adamczewski

Renarrating women's stories in Imogen Hermes Gowar's The mermaid and Mrs. Hancock / Joanna Maciulewicz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 11, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Neo-Georgian fiction

ISBN:

9781003000679

1003000673

9781000388534

1000388530

9781000388596

100038859X

Publisher Number:

40030661626

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.