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English fiction of the romantic period, 1789-1830 / Gary Kelly.
Van Pelt Library PR868.R73 K45 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelly, Gary.
- Series:
- Longman literature in English series
- Longman literature in English series.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Great Britain.
- English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 330 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Longman, 1989.
- Summary:
- English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 is the first comprehensive historical survey of fiction from that period for many decades. It combines a clear awareness of the period's social history with recent developments in literary criticism, theory and history, and explains the astounding variety of forms in Romantic fiction in terms of the various cultural, political, social, regional and gender conflicts of the time. It provides a broad-ranging survey from the major authors and works through to the sub-genres of the period. Jan Austin and Sir Alter Scott are discussed alongside the Gothic Romance, political and feminist fiction, social satire and regional, rural and historical novels. It also provides a comparison of the methods of distribution and marketing and the availability of books then and now; examines cheap popular fiction and children's fiction, and considers the recent debate about the place of prose fiction in a Romantic literature hitherto dominated by poetry.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0582492610
- 0582492602
- OCLC:
- 17775827
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