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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 May 2006
      05 September 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511999390
      9780521419086
      9780521429450
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521419085
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.598kg, 300 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.487kg, 300 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    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.

    Reviews

    ‘ … this is a collection that students of the English novel of this period will find useful as an introduction and as a guide to current opinion’.

    Source: Forum for Modern Language Studies

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