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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521681081

ISBN-139780521681087

eBay Product ID (ePID)59048788

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Number of Pages308 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameCambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period

SubjectGeneral, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2008

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorKatie Trumpener

SeriesCambridge Companions to Literature Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight17.5 Oz

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2007-014639

Reviews'The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period will be an essential addition to the humanities collections of academic libraries. It is an excellent introduction to an emerging corpus of literary works for undergraduate students, postgraduates on taught courses and the interested general reader.' Reference Reviews, "This useful, well-edited collection of 14 essays by 13 authors offers a much-needed survey of British prose fiction in the Romantic period, roughly 1785-1830...Recommended." - T. Hoagwood, Texas A&M University, Choice

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal823/.709

Table Of ContentIntroduction Richard Maxwell and Katie Trumpener; 1. The historiography of fiction in the Romantic period Richard Maxwell; 2. Publishing, authorship, and reading William St Clair; 3. Gothic fiction Deidre Shauna Lynch; 4. The historical novel Richard Maxwell; 5. Thinking locally: novelistic worlds in provincial fiction Martha Bohrer; 6. Poetry and the novel Marshall Brown; 7. Orientalism and Empire James Watt; 8. Intellectual history and political theory Paul Keen; 9. Women writers and the woman's novel: the trope of maternal transmission Jill Campbell; 10. Tales for child readers Katie Trumpener; 11. Sentimental fiction Ann Wierda Rowland; 12. Fiction and the working classes Gary Kelly; 13. The Irish novel 1800-29 Ina Ferris; 14. Scotland and the novel Ian Duncan; Guide to further reading.

SynopsisWhile poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable range of popular works from the period have been re-discovered and reread intensively. This Companion offers an overview of British fiction written between roughly the mid-1760s and the early 1830s and is an ideal guide to the major authors, historical and cultural contexts, and later critical reception. The contributors to this volume represent the most up-to-date directions in scholarship, charting the ways in which the period's social, political and intellectual redefinitions created new fictional subjects, forms and audiences., The novel of the Romantic period has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. This Companion offers an overview of British fiction written between the mid-1760s and the early 1830s and is an ideal guide to the major authors, historical and cultural contexts, and later critical reception., An overview of British fiction written between the mid-1760s and the early 1830s in its historical and cultural contexts.

LC Classification NumberPR858.R73C36 2007