Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century / / ed. by Katrin Berndt, Alessa Johns.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Bacalu, Alexandra Ileana,; Barnett-Woods, Victoria,; Berndt, Katrin,; Binhammer, Katherine,; Bohls, Elizabeth A.,; Carlile, Susan,; Class, Monika,; Cook, Daniel,; Cuder-Domínguez, Pilar,; DeLucia, Jo-Ellen,; Garret, Nicole,; Glaser, Brigitte Johanna,; Hansen, Christiane,; Henke, Jennifer S.,; Houswitschka, Christoph,; Hultquist, Aleksondra,; Johns, Alessa,; Lipski, Jakub,; Markley, Robert,; Martin Gurr, Jens,; Menely, Tobias,; Morris, Paul D.,; Murphy, Olivia,; Pohl, Nicole,; Rennhak, Katharina,; Riach, Alan,; Roxburgh, Natalie,; Röder, Katrin,; Schabert, Ina,; Schmid, Susanne,; Schürer, Norbert,; Seager, Nicholas,; Tavor Bannet, Eve,
• HerausgeberIn: Berndt, Katrin,; Johns, Alessa,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Handbooks of English and American Studies : Text and Theory ; 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 596 p.)

The handbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the British novel in the long eighteenth century, when this genre emerged to develop into the period’s most versatile and popular literary form. Part I features six systematic chapters that discuss literary, intellectual, socio-economic, and political contexts, providing innovative approaches to issues such as sense and sentiment, gender considerations, formal characteristics, economic history, enlightened and radical concepts of citizenship and human rights, ecological ramifications, and Britain’s growing global involvement. Part II presents twenty-five analytical chapters that attend to individual novels, some canonical and others recently recovered. These analyses engage the debates outlined in the systematic chapters, undertaking in-depth readings that both contextualize the works and draw on relevant criticism, literary theory, and cultural perspectives. The handbook’s breadth and depth, clear presentation, and lucid language make it attractive and accessible to scholar and student alike.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Editors’ Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Systematic Questions -- 1 The Novel and Liberty: Individual Freedom and Civic Order -- 2 The Novel and Sense(s): Reason, Sentiment, and Subjectivity -- 3 The Novel and Intimacy: Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Readings -- 4 The Novel and Cultural Encounters: Colonialism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Other -- 5 The Novel and the Literary Marketplace: Print Culture, Popular Reading, and an Emerging British Canon -- 6 The Novel and the Environment: Nature, Cultivation, and Alien Ecologies -- Part II: Close Readings -- 7 Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave (1688) -- 8 Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe Trilogy (1719‒1720) -- 9 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726) -- 10 Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady (1747–1748) -- 11 Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (1749) -- 12 Eliza Haywood, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751) -- 13 Robert Paltock, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins (1751) -- 14 Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752) -- 15 Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759) -- 16 Sarah Scott, Millenium Hall (1762) -- 17 Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–1767) -- 18 Frances Brooke, The History of Emily Montague (1769) -- 19 Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling (1771) -- 20 Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) -- 21 Frances Burney, Evelina (1778) -- 22 Phebe Gibbes, Hartly House, Calcutta (1789) -- 23 Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest (1791) -- 24 Charlotte Smith, Desmond (1792) -- 25 Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman (1798) -- 26 William Earle, Obi; or The History of Three-Fingered Jack (1800) -- 27 Anonymous, The Woman of Colour; A Tale (1808) -- 28 Maria Edgeworth, Ormond (1817) -- 29 Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy (1817; revised 1829–1830) -- 30 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) -- 31 Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818) -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- List of Contributors