The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

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ID19938527
AuthorsApril London (University of Ottawa, corresponding author)
Year2012
Publication date2012-04-05
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueCambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139021555
OpenAlexW1540370978
ISBN9781139021555
Open LibraryOL25170663M
LanguageEN
References cited19

In the eighteenth century, the novel became established as a popular literary form all over Europe. Britain proved an especially fertile ground, with Defoe, Fielding, Richardson and Burney as early exponents of the novel form. The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel considers the development of the genre in its formative period in Britain. Rather than present its history as a linear progression, April London gives an original new structure to the field, organizing it through three broad thematic clusters – identity, community and history. Within each of these themes, she explores the central tensions of eighteenth-century fiction: between secrecy and communicativeness, independence and compliance, solitude and family, cosmopolitanism and nation-building. The reader will gain a thorough understanding of both prominent and lesser-known novels and novelists, key social and literary contexts, the tremendous formal variety of the early novel and its growth from a marginal to a culturally central genre

Aesthetics · Art · Cosmopolitanism · History of literature · Identity (music) · Independence (probability theory) · Literature · Period (music) · Political science · Secrecy · Solitude · Variety (cybernetics) · History · Law · Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · 18th century · Englisch · English fiction · English fiction, history and criticism · English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh · European · History and criticism · Literary Criticism · Roman

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