The Cambridge Companion To The Eighteenth Century Novel

Author : John Richetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521429455

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The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel by John Richetti Pdf

In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 5214294557

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Cambridge Companion to The Eighteenth Century Novel by Anonim Pdf

Author : John J. Richetti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0511999399

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The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel by John J. Richetti Pdf

"The contributors challenge and refine the traditional view of the 18th century novel's origins and purposes, showing that the novel is defined primarily by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging world of print culture."--[Source inconnue].

Author : Thomas Keymer,Jon Mee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521007577

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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830 by Thomas Keymer,Jon Mee Pdf

This volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.

Author : Frans De Bruyn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107082489

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The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought by Frans De Bruyn Pdf

A survey of influential thinkers and their ideas in eighteenth-century British philosophy, science, religion, history, law, and economics.

Author : John Richetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107043497

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The Cambridge Companion to ‘Robinson Crusoe' by John Richetti Pdf

Explores a major eighteenth-century narrative and the power of the Crusoe figure beyond the pages of the original book.

Author : Paula R. Backscheider,Catherine Ingrassia
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405192453

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A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture by Paula R. Backscheider,Catherine Ingrassia Pdf

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 novel Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral context Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century Explores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy Covers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and science Considers both canonical and non-canonical literature

Author : Ann Jessie van Sant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521604583

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Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel by Ann Jessie van Sant Pdf

This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century English novel discusses literary representations of suffering and responses to it in the social and scientific context of the period. The reader of novels shares with more scientific observers the activity of gazing on suffering, leading Ann Van Sant to explore the coincidence between the rhetoric of pathos and scientific presentation as they were applied to repentant prostitutes and children of the vagrant and criminal poor. The book goes on to explore the novel's location of psychological responses to suffering in physical forms. Van Sant invokes eighteenth-century debates about the relative status of sight and touch in epistemology and psychology, as a context for discussing the 'man of feeling' (notably in Sterne's A Sentimental Journey) - a spectator who registers his sensibility by physical means.

Author : Steven N. Zwicker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521564883

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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740 by Steven N. Zwicker Pdf

This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary texts: in the daring lyrics and intricate political allegories of this age, in the vitriol and bristling topicality of its satires as well as in the imaginative flight of its mock epics, fictions, and heroic verse. The volume's chronologies and select bibliographies will guide the reader through texts and events, while the fourteen essays commissioned for this Companion will allow us to read the period anew.

Author : M. O. Grenby,Andrea Immel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828048

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The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature by M. O. Grenby,Andrea Immel Pdf

Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling and Philip Pullman, the Companion illuminates acknowledged classics and many more neglected works. Its unique structure means that equal consideration can be given to both texts and contexts. Some chapters analyse key themes and major genres, including humour, poetry, school stories, and picture books. Others explore the sociological dimensions of children's literature and the impact of publishing practices. Written by leading scholars from around the world, this Companion will be essential reading for all students and scholars of children's literature, offering original readings and new research that reflects the latest developments in the field.

Author : Martin Priestman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107494503

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The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction by Martin Priestman Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form. The collection, by an international team of established specialists, offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading. The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of crime fiction and its critical reception.

Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521794668

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The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction by Jerrold E. Hogle Pdf

Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. Here fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called Gothic story ) to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between high and popular culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.

Author : Claude Rawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827683

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The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding by Claude Rawson Pdf

Now best known for three great novels - Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews and Amelia - Henry Fielding (1707–54) was one of the most controversial figures of his time. Prominent first as a playwright, then as a novelist and political journalist, and finally as a justice of peace, Fielding made a substantial contribution to eighteenth-century culture, and was hugely influential in the development of the novel as a form, both in Britain and more widely in Europe. This collection of specially-commissioned essays by leading scholars describes and analyses the many facets of Fielding's work in theatre, fiction, journalism and politics. In addition it assesses his unique contribution to the rise of the novel as the dominant literary form, the development of the law, and the political and literary culture of eighteenth-century Britain. Including a chronology and guide to further reading, this volume offers a comprehensive account of Fielding's life and work.

Author : Catherine Ingrassia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107013162

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The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 by Catherine Ingrassia Pdf

Essays by leading scholars provide a comprehensive overview of women writers and their work in Restoration and eighteenth-century Britain.

Author : Peter Sabor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827607

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The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney by Peter Sabor Pdf

Frances Burney (1752–1840) was the most successful female novelist of the eighteenth century. Her first novel Evelina was a publishing sensation; her follow-up novels Cecilia and Camilla were regarded as among the best fiction of the time and were much admired by Jane Austen. Burney's life was equally remarkable: a protegee of Samuel Johnson, lady-in-waiting at the court of George III, later wife of an emigre aristocrat and stranded in France during the Napoleonic Wars, she lived on into the reign of Queen Victoria. Her journals and letters are now widely read as a rich source of information about the Court, social conditions and cultural changes over her long lifetime. This Companion is the first volume to cover all her works, including her novels, plays, journals and letters, in a comprehensive and accessible way. It also includes discussion of her critical reputation, and a guide to further reading.