BACKSCHEIDER PAULA R / INGRASSIA CATHERINE

A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture

Herausgeber: Backscheider, Paula R; Ingrassia, Catherine

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to the Eighteenth-century English Novel and Culture provides an up-to-date resource for the study of this subject, foregrounding those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century. It considers not only the canonical literature of the period, but also the non-canonical literature, and the contexts in which the eighteenth-century novel was produced. The volume is divided into three parts exploring formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy. Each of these three parts is structured around the same themes, including globalization, nationhood, technology, commerce, science, and lifestyles. This allows the Companion to capitalize on cutting-edge scholarship without obscuring traditional parameters for the study of the eighteenth-century novel, such as narrative authority, print culture, and the rise of the novel as a pan-European phenomenon. The Companion as a whole furnishes readers exemplary cultural studies methodology and a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts, and keeps them abreast of current critical trends in a field that has changed dramatically over the past decade.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 177mm x 47mm
• Gewicht: 1148g
• ISBN-13: 9781405101578
• ISBN-10: 1405101571
• Artikelnr.: 22136703

Autorenporträt

Paula R. Backscheider is Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar at Auburn University. A former president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, she is best known as the author of Daniel Defoe: His Life (1992). Catherine Ingrassia is Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction 1
Catherine Ingrassia
Shared Bibliography 18
PART ONE Formative Influences 23
1. "I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it":
Crusoe's Farther Adventures and the Unwritten History of the Novel 25
Robert Markley
2. Fiction/Translation/Transnation: The Secret History of the
Eighteenth-Century Novel 48
Srinivas Aravamudan
3. Narrative Transmigrations: The Oriental Tale and the Novel in
Eighteenth-Century Britain 75
Ros Ballaster
4. Age of Peregrination: Travel Writing and the Eighteenth-Century Novel 97
Elizabeth Bohls
5. Milton and the Poetics of Ecstasy in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century
Fiction 117
Robert A. Erickson
6. Representing Resistance: British Seduction Stories, 1660-1800 140
Toni Bowers
PART TWO The World of the Eighteenth-Century Novel 165
7. Why Fanny Can't Read: Joseph Andrews and the (Ir)relevance of Literacy
167
Paula McDowell
8. Memory and Mobility: Fictions of Population in Defoe, Goldsmith, and
Scott 191
Charlotte Sussman
9. The Erotics of the Novel 214
James Grantham Turner
10. The Original American Novel, or, The American Origin of the Novel 235
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
11. New Contexts for Early Novels by Women: The Case of Eliza Haywood,
Aaron Hill, and the Hillarians, 1719-1725 261
Kathryn R. King
12. Momentary Fame: Female Novelists in Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews 276
Laura Runge
13. Women, Old Age, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel 299
Devoney Looser
14. Joy and Happiness 321
Adam Potkay
PART THREE The Novel's Modern Legacy 341
15. The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Print Culture: A Proposed Modesty 343
Christopher Flint
16. An Emerging New Canon of the British Eighteenth-Century Novel: Feminist
Criticism, the Means of Cultural Production, and the Question of Value 365
John Richetti
17. Queer Gothic 383
George E. Haggerty
18. Conversable Fictions 399
Kathryn Sutherland
19. Racial Legacies: The Speaking Countenance and the Character Sketch in
the Novel 419
Roxann Wheeler
20. Home Economics: Representations of Poverty in Eighteenth-Century
Fiction 441
Ruth Perry
21. Whatever Happened to the Gordon Riots? 459
Carol Houlihan Flynn
22. The Novel Body Politic 481
Susan S. Lanser
23. Literary Culture as Immediate Reality 504
Paula R. Backscheider
Index 539

Rezensionen

"A team of two dozen prominent scholars ... .Here report on thestate of the art in 18th century novel studies. Nearly all the workis cutting edge, and almost every page challenges conventionalwisdom ... .Specialists in the early novel will find thiswide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated work provocative.Highly recommended." CHOICE

"Editors Paula R. Backscheider and CatherineIngrassia have assembled an impressive collection of authors... .Visiting or revisiting a complex cultural topography." ECF

"The Variety of texts treated in this volume is rich,unapologetic, and one of its real pleasures." TheJournal for Early Modern Cultural Studies