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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 812

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Author: J. A. Downie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191651079
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 625

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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-in other words, from the later seventeenth century right through to the first three decades of the nineteenth century when, 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 not only covers those 'masters and mistresses' of early prose fiction-such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Scott and Austen-who are still acknowledged to be seminal figures in the emergence and development of the English novel, but also the significant number of recently-rediscovered novelists who were popular in their own day. At the same time, its comprehensive coverage of cultural contexts not considered by any existing study, but which are central to the emergence of the novel, such as the book trade and the mechanics of book production, copyright and censorship, the growth of the reading public, the economics of culture both in London and in the provinces, and the re-printing of popular fiction after 1774, offers unique insight into the making of the English novel.

Author: James Ballantyne
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Languages : en
Pages : 816

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Author: Samuel Richardson
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Languages : en
Pages : 806

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Author: Homer Obed Brown
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812292294
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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In Institutions of the English Novel, Homer Obed Brown takes issue with the generally accepted origin of the novel in the early eighteenth century. Brown argues that what we now call the novel did not appear as a recognized single "genre" until the early nineteenth century, when the fictional prose narratives of the preceding century were grouped together under that name. After analyzing the figurative and thematic uses of private letters and social gossip in the constitution of the novel, Brown explores what was instituted in and by the fictions of Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, and Scott, with extensive discussion of the pivotal role Scott's work played in the novel's rise to institutional status. This study is an intriguing demonstration of how these earlier narratives are involved in the development and institution of such political and cultural concepts as self, personal identity, the family, and history, all of which contributed to the later possibility of the novel.

Author: Lynn C. Bartlett
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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A collection of materials taken from letters, notebooks, reviews, works of literature, and other sources ... intended as supplementary reading in the study of the history of the eighteenth and nineteenth century English novel.

Author: Richard Burton
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Author: Samuel Richardson
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Languages : en
Pages : 818

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Author: Sylvia Kasey Marks
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838750902
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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The first book-length monograph to examine Samuel Richardson's last and least-known work. Marks considers this novel a natural outgrowth and culmination of the conduct-book form -- indeed, the finest example of the genre.

Author: Samuel Richardson (the Novelist.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 810

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