A companion to the eighteenth-century English novel and culture

著者

• Backscheider, Paula
• Ingrassia, Catherine

書誌事項

A companion to the eighteenth-century English novel and culture

edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia

Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

• : pbk

注記

This paperback edition first published 2009

Edition history: Blackwell publishing Ltd (hardback, 2005)

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral context Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century Explores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy Covers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and science Considers both canonical and non-canonical literature

目次

List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 Catherine Ingrassia Shared Bibliography 18 PART ONE Formative Influences 23 1. "I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it": Crusoe's Farther Adventures and the Unwritten History of the Novel 25 Robert Markley 2. Fiction/Translation/Transnation: The Secret History of the Eighteenth-Century Novel 48 Srinivas Aravamudan 3. Narrative Transmigrations: The Oriental Tale and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain 75 Ros Ballaster 4. Age of Peregrination: Travel Writing and the Eighteenth-Century Novel 97 Elizabeth Bohls 5. Milton and the Poetics of Ecstasy in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Fiction 117 Robert A. Erickson 6. Representing Resistance: British Seduction Stories, 1660-1800 140 Toni Bowers PART TWO The World of the Eighteenth-Century Novel 165 7. Why Fanny Can't Read: Joseph Andrews and the (Ir)relevance of Literacy 167 Paula McDowell 8. Memory and Mobility: Fictions of Population in Defoe, Goldsmith, and Scott 191 Charlotte Sussman 9. The Erotics of the Novel 214 James Grantham Turner 10. The Original American Novel, or, The American Origin of the Novel 235 Elizabeth Maddock Dillon 11. New Contexts for Early Novels by Women: The Case of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and the Hillarians, 1719-1725 261 Kathryn R. King 12. Momentary Fame: Female Novelists in Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews 276 Laura Runge 13. Women, Old Age, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel 299 Devoney Looser 14. Joy and Happiness 321 Adam Potkay PART THREE The Novel's Modern Legacy 341 15. The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Print Culture: A Proposed Modesty 343 Christopher Flint 16. An Emerging New Canon of the British Eighteenth-Century Novel: Feminist Criticism, the Means of Cultural Production, and the Question of Value 365 John Richetti 17. Queer Gothic 383 George E. Haggerty 18. Conversable Fictions 399 Kathryn Sutherland 19. Racial Legacies: The Speaking Countenance and the Character Sketch in the Novel 419 Roxann Wheeler 20. Home Economics: Representations of Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 441 Ruth Perry 21. Whatever Happened to the Gordon Riots? 459 Carol Houlihan Flynn 22. The Novel Body Politic 481 Susan S. Lanser 23. Literary Culture as Immediate Reality 504 Paula R. Backscheider Index 539

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA9164516X
• ISBN:
  • 9781405192453
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Oxford
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 556 p.
• 大きさ: 25cm
• 分類:
  • DC22 : 823.509
• 件名:
  • LCSH : English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism