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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John J Richetti |
ISBN: | 0521419085 9780521419086 0521429455 9780521429450 9780511999390 0511999399 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521419085 |
OCLC Number: | 33441155 |
Description: | xiii, 283 pages ; 23 cm |
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. |
Series Title: | Cambridge companions to literature. |
Responsibility: | edited by John Richetti. |
More information: | |
Local System Bib Number: | u162212 |
Abstract:
Drawing on new research in social and political history, and offering detailed readings of key texts, this multifaceted picture of the British novel in its formative decades provides an indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century novel and its place within the culture of its time.
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' ... this is a collection that students of the English novel of this period will find useful as an introduction and as a guide to current opinion'. Forum for Modern Language Studies
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