| Description |
xviii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Cambridge companions to topics
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-278) and index. |
| Contents |
The historiography of fiction in the Romantic period / Richard Maxwell -- Publishing, authorship, and reading / William St Clair -- Gothic fiction / Deidre Shauna Lynch -- The historical novel / Richard Maxwell -- Thinking locally: novelistic worlds in provincial fiction / Martha Bohrer -- Poetry and the novel / Marshall Brown -- Orientalism and empire / James Watt -- Intellectual history and political theory / Paul Keen -- Women writers and the woman's novel: the trope of maternal transmission / Jill Campbell -- Tales for child readers / Katie Trumpener -- Sentimental fiction / Ann Wierda Rowland -- Fiction and the working classes / Gary Kelly -- The Irish novel 1800-1829 / Ina Ferris -- Scotland and the novel / Ian Duncan. |
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The historiography of fiction in the Romantic period / Richard Maxwell -- Publishing, authorship, and Reading / William St Clair -- Gothic fiction / Deidre Shauna Lynch -- The historical novel / Richard Maxwell -- Thinking locally: novelistic worlds in provincial fiction / Martha Bohrer -- Poetry and the novel / Marshall Brown -- Orientalism and empire / James Watt -- Intellectual history and political theory / Paul Keen -- Women writers and the woman's novel: The trope of maternal -- Transmission / Jill Campbell -- Tales for child readers / Katie Trumpener -- Sentimental fiction / Ann Wierda Rowland -- Fiction and the working classes / Gary Kelly -- The Irish novel 1800-1829 / Ina Ferris -- Scotland and the novel / Ian Duncan. |
| Summary |
While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable range of popular works from the period have been re-discovered and reread intensively. This Companion offers an overview of British fiction written between roughly the mid-1760s and the early 1830s and is an ideal guide to the major authors, historical and cultural contexts, and later critical reception. The contributors to this volume represent the most up-to-date directions in scholarship, charting the ways in which the period's social, political and intellectual redefinitions created new fictional subjects, forms and audiences. |
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English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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18th century |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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Romanticism. |
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Great Britain. |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Intellectual life. |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Books and reading. |
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History. |
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Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain.
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Gothic revival (Literature) |
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English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Irish authors. |
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English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Scottish authors. |
| Added Author |
Maxwell, Richard, 1948-2010.
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Trumpener, Katie, 1961-
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| Added Title |
Fiction in the Romantic period |
| ISBN |
9780521862523 alkaline paper |
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0521862523 alkaline paper |
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9780521681087 paperback alkaline paper |
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0521681081 paperback alkaline paper |
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