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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 39
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Dictionary of literary biography complete online
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 39.
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Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
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Part 1 -- Thomas Amory (1691?-1788) - Penelope Aubin (1685-ca. 1731) - Robert Bage (1728-1801) - Jane Barker (1652-1727?) - William Beckford (1760-1844) - Aphra Behn (1640?-1689) - Arthur Blackamore (1679-death date unkown) - Frances Brooke (1724-1789) - Henry Brooke (1703?-1783) - John Bunyan (1628-1688) - Fanny Burney (1752-1840) - John Cleland (1710-1789) - Mary Collyer (1716?-1763?) - William Congreve (1670-1729) - Francis Conventry (1725-1754) - Mary Davys (1674-1732) - Thomas Day (1748-1789) - Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) -Henry Fielding (1707-1754) - Sarah Fielding (1710-1768) - William Godwin (175601836) - Oliver Goldsmith (1730 or 1731-1774) - Richard Graves (1715-1804) - Elizabeth Griffith (1727?-1793) - Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756) - "Sir" John Hill (1714?-1775) -- Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809) - Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) - Charles Johnstone (1719?-1800? ) -- Harriet (1757-1851) and Sophia Lee (1750-1824) - Charlotte Lennox (1729 or 1730-1804) - Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818). |
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Part 2 -- Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831) - Delariviere Manly (1672?-1724) - Robert Paltock (1697-1767) - Samuel Jackson Pratt (1749-1814) - Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) - Clara Reeve (1729-1823) - Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) - Elizabeth Rowe (1674-1737) - Sarah Scott (1723-1795) - John Shebbeare (1709-1788) - Frances Sheridan (1724-1766) - Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) - Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) - Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) - Horace Walpole (1717-1797) - Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) - Novelists on the Novel - The Author's Apology for His Book (John Bunyan) - Preface to "Incognita" (William Congreve) - Preface to "The Secret History, of Quenn Zarah, and the Zarazians" (Delariviere Manley) - Preface to "The History of Romances" (Pierre Daniel Huet) - Preface to "Robinson Crusoe" (Daniel Defoe) - Preface to "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Drusoe" (Daniel Defoe) - Preface to "Colonel Jack"' (Daniel Defoe) - Preface to "Moll Flanders" (Daniel Defoe) - Preface to "Roxanna" (Daniel Defoe) - Preface to "The Life of Charlotta du Pont" ( Penelope Aubin) - From the Dedication of "Lasselia" (Eliza Haywood) - From the Dedication of "The Tea-Table" (Eliza Haywood) - From the Preface to "The Disguis'd Prince" (Eliza Haywood) - Preface to "The Works of Mrs. Davys" (Mary Davys) - Preface to the First Ediction of "Pamela" (Samuel Richardson) - Introductory Letters from the Second Edition of "Pamela" (Samuel Richardson) - Preface to Volume I of "Clarissa" - Preface to Volume 3 of "Clarissa " (Samuel Richardson) - From the Preface to the Third Edition of "Clarissa" (Samuel Richardson) - Postscript to "Clarissa" (Samuel Richardson) - Preface to "Joseph Andrews" (Henry Fielding) - From "The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews" (Henry Fielding) - Preface to Sarah Fielding's "The Adventures of David Simple" (Henry Fielding) - From the Preface to Sarah Fielding's " Familiar Letters" (Henry Fielding) - Review of "Clarissa" from the "Jacobite's Journal" (Henry Fielding) - Letter to Richardson on "Clarissa" - From "Tom Jones" (Henry Fielding) - Defense of "Amelia" in the Covent-Garden Journal (Henry Fielding) - Preface to "Roderick Random" (Tobias Smollett) - Dedication to "Ferdinand Count Fathom" (Tobias Smollett) - Preface to "Ferdinand Count Fathom" (Tobias Smollett) - Preface to "The Cry" (Sarah Fielding) - From the "Rambler", no. 4, Saturday, 31 March 1750 (Samuel Johnson) - Dedication to "The History of Pompey the Little" (Francis Coventry) -- Preface to the First Edition of "The Castle of Otranto" (Horace Walpole) - Preface to the Second Edition of "The Castle of Otranto" (Horace Walpole) - Preface to "The Delicate Distsress" (Elizabeth Griffith) - Preface to "The Old English Baron" (Clara Reeve) - From "The Progress of Romance" (Clara Reeve) - Preface to "Evelina" (Fanny Burney) - Dedication to "The Wanderer" (Fanny Burney) - Preface to "Alwyn: (Thomas Holcroft) - The "Lounger", no. 20, Saturday, 18 June 1785 (Henry Mackenzie) - Preface to "St. Leon" (William Godwin). |
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Essays on British novelists who were pioneers in establishing the thematic concerns, and creating the form of the classic British novel. Works reflect themes and attitudes of the modern era - unjust social and political constraints; maudlin sentimentality; fascination with thing exotic and horrifying; deepening skepticism about the validity of social, political, and religious institutions on which the old order depends. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. |
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Original: 665 p. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: Internet. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 18th century.
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English fiction. |
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18th century |
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English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
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Novelists, English -- 18th century -- Biography.
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Novelists, English. |
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Biographies.
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Novelists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Battestin, Martin C.
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Gale Group.
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| ISBN |
0810317176 |
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9780810317178 |
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