John Richetti - The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Centur torrent

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Product Details
Book Title: The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Book Author: John Richetti
Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1St Edition edition (September 13, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521429455
ISBN-13: 978-0521429450
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Book Description
Publication Date: September 13, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0521429455 | ISBN-13: 978-0521429450 | Edition: 1St Edition
This multifaceted picture of the British novel in its formative decades provides an indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century novel, and its place within the culture of its time. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. Sentimental and Gothic fiction, and fiction by women, are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett and Burney.
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Review
"...especially persuasive in describing the new scene of writing opended by the novel....All in all, this is an indispensable guide and highly recommended." Choice
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Book Description II
Twelve contributors challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. Sentimental and Gothic fiction, and fiction by women, are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett and Burney.