A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture
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A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts.
An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel
Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral context
Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century
Explores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts.

An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel

Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral context

Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century

Explores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy

Covers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and science

Considers both canonical and non-canonical literature
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 (1989) and Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry (2005), for which she was co-winner of the Modern Language Association Lowell Prize. 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) and the editor of Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela (2004).
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"A team of two dozen prominent scholars ... .Here report on the state of the art in 18th century novel studies. Nearly all the work is cutting edge, and almost every page challenges conventional wisdom ... .Specialists in the early novel will find this wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated work provocative. Highly recommended." CHOICE

"Editors Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia 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." The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies