The Cambridge companion to the Eighteenth-Century novel / edited by John Richetti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richetti, John J., editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.

Contents:

Introduction / John Richetti

The novel and social/cultural history / J. Paul Hunter

Defoe as an innovator of fictional form / Max Novak

"Gulliver's travels" and the contracts of fiction / Michael Seidel

Samuel Richardson : fiction and knowledge / Margaret Anne Doody

Henry Fielding / Claude Rawson

Sterne and irregular oratory / Jonathan Lamb

Smollett's "Humphry Clinker" / Michael Rosenblum

Marginality in Frances Burney's novels / Julia Epstein

Women writers and the eighteenth-century novel / Jane Spencer

Sentimental novels / John Mullan

Enlightenment, popular culture, and Gothic fiction / James P. Carson.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

ISBN:

1-139-81519-9

0-511-99939-9