John Skinner

An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction (eBook, PDF)

Raising the Novel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction deals with fiction of the 'long eighteenth century', using a clearly defined pool of texts and corpus of writers. The first part of the study discusses the broader issues of definitions and approaches, genre and gender, and canon formation; the second part, after a more general discussion of Richardson and Fielding, offers a series of five paired readings, juxtaposing texts by Behn and Defoe, Sterne and Smollett, Lennox and Burney, Radcliffe and Godwin and Austen.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 317
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230629462
• Artikelnr.: 58429846

Autorenporträt

JOHN SKINNER has taught at various universities in Sweden, Finland, Italy and the United States and has published.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- PART ONE: RAISING THE NOVEL.- Critics and Theorists.- Sounding the Canon.- Genre and Gender.- Two Literary Parabolas (i): Richardson from Familiar Letters to Grandison.- Two Literary Parabolas (ii): Fielding from Jonathan Wild to Amelia.- PART TWO: FICTIONAL PERSPECTIVES FROM BEHN TO AUSTEN.- Behn's Oroonoko and Defoe's Moll Flanders.- Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Smollett's Humphry Clinker.- Lennox's The Female Quixote and Burney's Evelina.- Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Godwin's Caleb Williams.- Austen's Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park.- Notes.- Appendix A: Mrs Barbauld's The British Novelists.- Appendix B: The Dictionary of Literary Biography.- Appendix C: The Chadwyck Healey Database.- Bibliography.- Index.