| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 550 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 30 |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 30.
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| Contents |
"I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it": Crusoe's Farther adventures and the unwritten history of the novel / Robert Markley -- Fiction/translation/transnation: the secret history of the eighteenth-century novel / Srinivas Aravamudan -- Narrative transmigrations: the oriental tale and the novel in eighteenth-century Britain / Ros Ballaster -- Age of peregrination: travel writing and the eighteenth-century novel / Elizabeth Bohls -- Milton and the poetics of ecstasy in Restoration and eighteenth-century fiction / Robert A. Erickson -- Representing resistance: British seduction stories, 1660-1800 / Toni Bowers -- Why Fanny can't read: Joseph Andrews and the (ir)relevance of literacy / Paula McDowell -- Memory and mobility: fictions of population in Defoe, Goldsmith, and Scott / Charlotte Sussman -- The erotics of the novel / James Grantham Turner -- The original American novel, or, the American origin of the novel / Elizabeth Maddock Dillon -- New contexts for early novels by women: the case of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and the Hillarians, 1719-1725 / Kathryn R. King -- Momentary fame: female novelists in eighteenth-century book reviews / Laura Runge -- Women, old age, and the eighteenth-century novel / Devoney Looser -- Joy and happiness / Adam Potkay -- The eighteenth-century novel and print culture: a proposed modesty / Christopher Flint -- An emerging new canon of the British eighteenth-century novel: feminist criticism, the means of cultural production, and the question of value / John Richetti -- Queer gothic / George E. Haggerty -- Conversable fictions / Kathryn Sutherland -- Racial legacies: the speaking countenance and the character sketch in the novel / Roxann Wheeler -- Home economics: representations of poverty in eighteenth-century fiction / Ruth Perry -- Whatever happened to the Gordon riots? / Carol Houlihan Flynn -- The novel body politic / Susan S. Lanser -- Literary culture as immediate reality / Paula R. Backscheider |
| Summary |
Aims to furnish readers with a cultural studies methodology and a vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. This volume is divided into three parts exploring formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English fiction
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Romans.
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Literatura inglesa (história e crítica) -- Século 18.
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Roman anglais -- 18e siecle -- Histoire et critique -- Guides, manuels, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
handbooks.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Handbooks and manuals
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Backscheider, Paula R., 1943-
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Ingrassia, Catherine.
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| LC no. |
2004008398 |
| ISBN |
1405154500 |
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9781405154505 |
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1405101571 |
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9781405101578 |
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9781405165006 |
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1405165006 |
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1280361980 |
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9781280361982 |
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9780470996232 |
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0470996234 |
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1782684514 |
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9781782684510 |
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9786610361984 |
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6610361983 |
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