Olivia Ferguson

Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

This one-of-a-kind cultural history explores caricature as a distinctively literary phenomenon, exploring how realism co-operates with 'caricature talk' in British novels of the Romantic period. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781009274241
• ISBN-10: 1009274244
• Artikelnr.: 75013239

Autorenporträt

Olivia Ferguson is an editorial consultant, writer and independent scholar based in North East Scotland. She has degrees in Literature and Linguistics from McGill University, the University of Victoria, and the University of Edinburgh. She has published research articles in Studies in Romanticism, Persuasions On-Line, Notes and Queries and Gothic Studies, and has a chapter in the forthcoming Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts. Olivia was a research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, in 2018-19, and Lecturer in Romanticism at Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2019-20.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Caricature Talk: 1. Defining Caricature
2. Denying Caricature
3. Caricature Talk and the Spectator
Part II. Novel Caricatures
Caricature Talk and Characterisation Technique: 4. Jane Austen and Anti-Caricature
5. Walter Scott and Historical Caricatures
6. Mary Shelley, Flesh-caricature and Horrid Realism.