Handbook of the British novel in the long eighteenth century / edited by Katrin Berndt, Alessa Johns.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berndt, Katrin, editor.

Johns, Alessa, editor.

Series:

Handbooks of English and American Studies

Handbooks of English and American Studies ; v.16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (606 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : De Gruyter, [2022]

Summary:

This series has been designed to offer students and researchers a compact means of orientation in their study of Anglophone literary texts. Each volume will introduce readers to current concepts and methodologies, as well as academic debates, by combining theory with text analysis and contextual anchoring.

Contents:

Intro

Editors' Preface

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Systematic Questions

1 The Novel and Liberty: Individual Freedom and Civic Order

2 The Novel and Sense(s): Reason, Sentiment, and Subjectivity

3 The Novel and Intimacy: Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Readings

4 The Novel and Cultural Encounters: Colonialism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Other

5 The Novel and the Literary Marketplace: Print Culture, Popular Reading, and an Emerging British Canon

6 The Novel and the Environment: Nature, Cultivation, and Alien Ecologies

Part II: Close Readings

7 Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave (1688)

8 Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe Trilogy (1719‒1720)

9 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)

10 Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady (1747-1748)

11 Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (1749)

12 Eliza Haywood, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751)

13 Robert Paltock, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins (1751)

14 Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752)

15 Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759)

16 Sarah Scott, Millenium Hall (1762)

17 Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767)

18 Frances Brooke, The History of Emily Montague (1769)

19 Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling (1771)

20 Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)

21 Frances Burney, Evelina (1778)

22 Phebe Gibbes, Hartly House, Calcutta (1789)

23 Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest (1791)

24 Charlotte Smith, Desmond (1792)

25 Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman (1798)

26 William Earle, Obi

or The History of Three-Fingered Jack (1800)

27 Anonymous, The Woman of Colour

A Tale (1808)

28 Maria Edgeworth, Ormond (1817).

29 Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy (1817

revised 1829-1830)

30 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818)

31 Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818)

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

List of Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Berndt, Katrin Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century

ISBN:

9783110649895

3110649896

9783110650440

3110650444

OCLC:

1336402714