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Titolo: | A companion to the eighteenth-century English novel and culture / / edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia |
Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (566 p.) |
Disciplina: | 823/.509 |
Soggetto topico: | English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism |
Altri autori: | BackscheiderPaula R IngrassiaCatherine |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | A companion to the eighteenth-century English novel and culture |
ISBN: | 1-78268-451-4 |
1-280-36198-0 | |
9786610361984 | |
1-4051-6500-6 | |
0-470-99623-4 | |
1-4051-5450-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823937003321 |
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