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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910143283503321
• 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