| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 595 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford Handbooks of Literature |
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Oxford handbooks of literature.
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PART I: 1660-1770: FROM 'NOVELS' TO WHAT IS NOT YET 'THE NOVEL' -- The economics of culture 1660-1770 -- 1. The Book Trade at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century / Peter Hinds -- 2. Business of Fiction: Novel Publishing, 1695-1774 / Michael F. Suarez, S.J. -- 3. Social Structure, Class, and Gender, 1660-1770 / Pat Rogers -- 4. Making Publics and Making Novels: Post-Habermasian Perspectives / Brian Cowan -- Influences on the early English novel -- 5. The Continental Influence on the Eighteenth-Century Novel: 'The English Improve What Others Invent' / Walter L. Reed -- 6. Criss-crossing the Channel: The French Novel and English Translation / Gillian Dow -- 7. Religious Writings and the Early Novel / W.R. Owens -- 8. Travel Literature and the Early Novel / Cynthia Wall -- 9. Secret History, Politics, and the Early Novel / Rebecca Bullard -- Early 'Novels' and Novelists -- 10. Restoration Fiction / Thomas Keymer -- 11. Testing the Market: Robinson Crusoe and After / David Oakleaf -- 12. Gulliver Effects / Clement Hawes -- 13. 'Labours of the Press': The Response to Pamela / Peter Sabor -- 14. Samuel Richardson and the Epistolary Novel / John Dussinger -- 15. Henry Fielding and the Progress of Romance / Scott Black -- 16. Novels of the 1750s / Simon Dickie -- 17. Sterne's Fiction and the Mid-Century Novel: The 'Vast Empire of Biographical Freebooters' and the 'Crying Volume' / Tim Parnell -- Epilogue: The English Novel at the end of the 1760s / J.A. Downie -- PART II: 1770-1832: THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL -- Literary Production, 1770-1832 -- 18. The Book Trade, 1770-1832 / John Feather -- 19. The Rise of the Illustrated English Novel to 1832 / Robert Folkenflik -- Authors, readers, reviewers, and critics, 1770-1832 -- 20. Social Structure, Class and Gender, 1770-1832 / W.A. Speck -- 21. 'Male' and 'Female' novels? Gendered Fictions and the Reading Public, 1770-1832 / Barbara M. Benedict -- 22. Reviewing the Novel / Antonia Forster -- 23. 'Ordering' Novels: Describing Prose Fiction, 1770-1832 / Peter Garside -- Novels and Novelists, 1770-1832 -- 24. The Rise and Decline of the Epistolary Novel, 1770-1832 / Ros Ballaster -- 25. Developments in Sentimental Fiction / Geoffrey Sill -- 26. Philosophical Fictions and 'Jacobin' Novels in the 1790s / Deidre Shauna Lynch -- 27. The Anti-Jacobin Novel / M.O. Grenby -- 28. The Gothic Novel and the Lingering Appeal of Romance / David H. Richter -- 29. Novel and Empire / Markman Ellis -- 30. The Popular Novel 1790 to 1820 / Gary Kelly -- 31. The Evangelical Novel / Lisa Wood -- 32. 'Pictures of domestic Life in Country Villages': Jane Austen and the 'Realist' Novel / Jan Fergus -- 33. Authorizing the Novel: Walter Scott's Historical Fiction / Ina Ferris -- 34. Parody and Satire in the Novel, 1770-1832 / Gary Dyer -- Epilogue: 'The English Novel at the End of the 1820s / J.A. Downie |
| Summary |
Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century-in other words, from the later seventeenth century right through to the first three decades of the nineteenth century when, with the publication of the novels of Jane Austen and Walter Scott, 'the novel' finally gained critical acceptance and assumed the position of cultural hegemony it enjoyed for over a century. By situating the novels of the period which are still read today against the background of the hundreds published between 1660 and 1830, this Handbook not only covers those 'masters and mistresses' of early prose fiction-such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Scott and Austen-who are still acknowledged to be seminal figures in the emergence and development of the English novel, but also the significant number of recently-rediscovered novelists who were popular in their own day. At the same time, its comprehensive coverage of cultural contexts not considered by any existing study, but which are central to the emergence of the novel, such as the book trade and the mechanics of book production, copyright and censorship, the growth of the reading public, the economics of culture both in London and in the provinces, and the re-printing of popular fiction after 1774, offers unique insight into the making of the English novel' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 18th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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English fiction
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Roman anglais -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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handbooks.
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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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Electronic book
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| Author |
Downie, J. A. (James Alan), 1951- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191749674 |
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0191749672 |
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9780191651076 |
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0191651079 |
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