Author: Frederick R. KarlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Adversary Literature The English Novel in the Eighteenth Century: A Study in Genre
Author: Frederick R. KarlHandbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Katrin BerndtPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110650444
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
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.
Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature
Author: Mary Ellen SnodgrassPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438109113
Category : Gothic revival (Literature)
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with Gothic literature.
Henry Fielding's Novels and the Classical Tradition
Author: Nancy A. MacePublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874135855
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In this study, author Nancy A. Mace rectifies the lack of scholarly attention given Henry Fielding's use of the classical tradition in his novels, periodical essays, and miscellaneous writings. Although scholars have extensively studied the affinities between Henry Fielding's novels and such modern genres as the romance, travel literature, and criminal biography, they have paid surprisingly little attention to his use of the classical tradition in developing both his narrative theory and practice.
Narrating Friendship and the British Novel, 1760-1830
Author: Katrin BerndtPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317132610
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Friendship has always been a universal category of human relationships and an influential motif in literature, but it is rarely discussed as a theme in its own right. In her study of how friendship gives direction and shape to new ideas and novel strategies of plot, character formation, and style in the British novel from the 1760s to the 1830s, Katrin Berndt argues that friendship functions as a literary expression of philosophical values in a genre that explores the psychology and the interactions of the individual in modern society. In the literary historical period in which the novel became established as a modern genre, friend characters were omnipresent, reflecting enlightenment philosophy’s definition of friendship as a bond that civilized public and private interactions and was considered essential for the attainment of happiness. Berndt’s analyses of genre-defining novels by Frances Brooke, Mary Shelley, Sarah Scott, Helen Maria Williams, Charlotte Lennox, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and Maria Edgeworth show that the significance of friendship and the increasing variety of novelistic forms and topics represent an overlooked dynamic in the novel’s literary history. Contributing to our understanding of the complex interplay of philosophical, socio-cultural and literary discourses that shaped British fiction in the later Hanoverian decades, Berndt’s book demonstrates that novels have conceived the modern individual not in opposition to, but in interaction with society, continuing Enlightenment debates about how to share the lives and the experiences of others.
The Eighteenth-century Novel
Author: Susan SpencerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780404646554
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Eleven contributions from American and British academics explore some of the 18th century's best-known novels as well as some more obscure pieces. The first three articles were written to honor the memory of Everett Zimmermann (U. of California, Santa Barbara) and draw extensively on his scholarship. Other topics include (for example) how Henry Fie
A Study Guide for "Gothic Literature"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410347176
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
A Study Guide for "Gothic Literature," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Movements for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Movements for Students for all of your research needs.
A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author: Michael J. MarcusePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2816
Book Description
English Fiction of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789
Author: Clive T. ProbynPublisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel
Author: Percy G. AdamsPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813161983
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Although much has been written about how the novel relates to the epic, the drama, or autobiography, no one has clearly analyzed the complex connections between prose fiction as it evolved before 1800 and the literature of travel, which by that date had a long and colorful history. Percy Adams skilfully portrays the emergence of the novel in the fiction of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and traces in rich detail the history of travel literature from its beginnings to the time of James Cook, contemporary of Richardson and Fielding. And since the recit de voyage and the novel were then so international, he deals throughout with all the literatures of Western Europe, one of the book's chief themes being the close literary ties among European nations. Equally important in the present study is its demonstration that, just as early travel accounts were often a combination of reporting and fabrication, so prose fiction is not a dichotomy to be divided into the "adult" novel on the one hand and the "childish" romance on the other, but an ambivalence—the marriage of realism and romanticism. Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel not only shows the novel to be amorphous and changing, it also proves impossible the task of defining the recit de voyage with its thousand forms and faces. Often the two types of literature are almost indistinguishable; even before Don Quixote, Adams writes, many travel accounts could have been advertised as having "the endless fascination of a wonderfully observed novel." This study by Percy Adams will both modify opinions about the novel and its history and provide an excellent introduction to the travel account, a form of literature too little known to students of belles lettres.