Contributor
Downie, J. A. (James Alan), 1951- editor.
ImprintOxford : Oxford University Press, 2013-2016.
Description1 online resource : illustrations.
Note:The Book Trade at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century / Peter Hinds -- Business of Fiction / Michael F. Suarez S.J. -- Social Structure, Class, and Gender, 1660-1770 / Pat Rogers -- Making Publics and Making Novels: Post-Habermasian Perspectives / Brian Cowan -- The Continental Influence on the Eighteenth-Century Novel: 'The English Improve What Others Invent' / Walter L. Reed -- Criss-Crossing the Channel: The French Novel and English Translation / Gillian Dow -- Religious Writings and the Early Novel / W. R. Owens -- Travel Literature and the Early Novel / Cynthia Wall -- Secret History, Politics, and the Early Novel / Rebecca Bullard -- Restoration Fiction / Tom Keymer -- Testing the Market / David Oakleaf -- Gulliver Effects / Clement Hawes -- 'Labours of the Press': The Response to Pamela / Peter Sabor -- Samuel Richardson and the Epistolary Novel / John Dussinger -- Henry Fielding and the Progress of Romance / Scott Black -- Novels of the 1750s / Simon Dickie -- Sterne's Fiction and the Mid-Century Novel / Tim Parnell -- The Book Trade 1770-1832 / John Feather -- The Rise of the Illustrated English Novel, 1700-1832 / Robert Folkenflik -- Social Structure, Class, and Gender 1770-1832 / W. A. Speck -- 'Male' and 'Female' Novels? Gendered Fictions and the Reading Public, 1770-1832 / Barbara M. Benedict -- Reviewing the Novel / Antonia Forster -- 'Ordering' Novels: Describing Prose Fiction, 1770-1832 / Peter Garside -- The Rise and Decline of the Epistolary Novel, 1770-1832 / Ros Ballaster -- Developments in Sentimental Fiction / Geoffrey Sill -- Philosophical Fictions and 'Jacobin' Novels in the 1790s / Deidre Shauna Lynch -- The Anti-Jacobin Novel / M. O. Grenby -- The Gothic Novel and the Lingering Appeal of Romance / David H. Richter -- Novel and Empire / Markman Ellis -- The Popular Novel 1790 to 1820 / Gary Kelly -- The Evangelical Novel / Lisa Wood -- 'Pictures of domestic Life in Country Villages': Jane Austen and the 'Realist' Novel / Jan Fergus -- Authorizing the Novel: Walter Scott's Historical Fiction / Ina Ferris -- Parody and Satire in the Novel, 1770-1832 / Gary Dyer.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century. With the publication of the novels of Jane Austen and Walter Scott, 'the novel' finally gained critical acceptance and assumed the position of cultural hegemony it enjoyed for over a century. By situating the novels of the period which are still read today against the background of the hundreds published between 1660 and 1830, this Handbook covers not only those 'masters and mistresses' of early prose fiction, but also the significant number of recently rediscovered novelists who were popular in their own day.
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