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

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 politi...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Handbooks of English and American Studies : Text and Theory ; 16
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 596 p.)
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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