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] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Handbooks of English and American Studies : Text and Theory ;
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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