1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910143283503321

Titolo

A companion to the eighteenth-century English novel and culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2005

ISBN

1-78268-451-4

1-280-36198-0

9786610361984

1-4051-6500-6

0-470-99623-4

1-4051-5450-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (566 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; 30

Altri autori (Persone)

BackscheiderPaula R. <1943->

IngrassiaCatherine

Disciplina

823/.509

Soggetti

English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.

Sommario/riassunto

A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novelFurnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contextForegrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first centuryExplores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910696338503321

Autore

Asquith William H

Titolo

Summary of percentages of zero daily mean streamflow for 712 U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging stations in Texas through 2003 [[electronic resource] /] / by William H. Asquith, Joseph Vrabel, and Meghan C. Roussel ; in cooperation with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Va. : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 2007

Descrizione fisica

xxxii, 721 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

Data series ; ; 247

Altri autori (Persone)

VrabelJoseph

RousselMeghan C

Soggetti

Stream measurements - Texas

Streamflow - Texas

Ephemeral streams - Texas

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title screen (viewed on May 22, 2007).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references (page 5).