ISBN:
9780191749674
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 595 pages)
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme
Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks online
Series Statement:
Literature
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook of the eighteenth-century novel
DDC:
810820
Keywords:
English fiction History and criticism 18th century
;
English fiction ; 18th century ; History and criticism
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Englisch
;
Roman
;
Geschichte 1700-1800
;
Englisch
;
Roman
;
Geschichte 1700-1899
Abstract:
Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century. With the publication of the novels of Jane Austen and Walter Scott, 'the novel' finally gained critical acceptance and assumed the position of cultural hegemony it enjoyed for over a century. By situating the novels of the period which are still read today against the background of the hundreds published between 1660 and 1830, this Handbook covers not only those 'masters and mistresses' of early prose fiction, but also the significant number of recently rediscovered novelists who were popular in their own day.
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566747.001.0001
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