The Cambridge History of the English Novel

The Cambridge History of the English Novel

Author: Robert L. Caserio

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-01-12

Total Pages: 1006

ISBN-13: 1316175103

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The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrative of the novel's progress unfolds in more than fifty chapters, charting continuities and innovations of structure, tracing lines of influence in terms of themes and techniques, and showing how greater and lesser authors shape the genre. Pushing beyond the usual period-centered boundaries, the History's emphasis on form reveals the range and depth the novel has achieved in English. This book will be indispensable for research libraries and scholars, but is accessibly written for students. Authoritative, bold and clear, the History raises multiple useful questions for future visions of the invention and re-invention of the novel.


The English Novel in History 1700-1780

The English Novel in History 1700-1780

Author: John Richetti

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1134656424

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The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eigtheenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the major novelists, as well as evaluatiing the importance of lesser known ones. John Richetti traces the shifting subject matter of the novel, discussing: * scandalous and amatory fictions * criminal narratives of the early part of the century * the more disciplined, realistic, and didactic strain that appears in the 1740's and 1750's * novels promoting new ideas about the nature of domestic life * novels by women and how they relate to the shift of subject matter This original and useful book revises traditional literary history by considering novels from those years in the context of the transformation of Britain in the eighteenth century.


The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740

The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740

Author: Michael McKeon

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2002-05-22

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780801869594

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The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age.


English Novel in History, 1895–1920

English Novel in History, 1895–1920

Author: David Trotter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-10

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1134980183

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Written especially for students and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, this book aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to early 20th-century fiction.


The Novel

The Novel

Author: Michael Schmidt

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 1299

ISBN-13: 0674369068

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The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied landscape that invites exploration rather than a linear journey. In The Novel: A Biography, Michael Schmidt does full justice to its complexity. Like his hero Ford Madox Ford in The March of Literature, Schmidt chooses as his traveling companions not critics or theorists but “artist practitioners,” men and women who feel “hot love” for the books they admire, and fulminate against those they dislike. It is their insights Schmidt cares about. Quoting from the letters, diaries, reviews, and essays of novelists and drawing on their biographies, Schmidt invites us into the creative dialogues between authors and between books, and suggests how these dialogues have shaped the development of the novel in English. Schmidt believes there is something fundamentally subversive about art: he portrays the novel as a liberalizing force and a revolutionary stimulus. But whatever purpose the novel serves in a given era, a work endures not because of its subject, themes, political stance, or social aims but because of its language, its sheer invention, and its resistance to cliché—some irreducible quality that keeps readers coming back to its pages.


The English Novel

The English Novel

Author: George Saintsbury

Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9788171567454

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The Book Is A Standard And Comprehensive Study Of The English Novel. It Would Be Found Highly Useful By The Students, Researchers And Teachers Of English Literature.


Novel Histories

Novel Histories

Author: Lisa Kasmer

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson

Published: 2012-01-16

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1611474965

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Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760–1830 argues that British women’s history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape but also the political significance of women’s writing. At a time when women’s participation in the republic of letters was both celebrated and reviled, these authors took cues from developments that revolutionized British history writing to push the limits of narrated history to respond to contemporary national politics. Through an examination of the conventions of historical and literary genres; historiography during the period; and the gendering of civic and literary roles, this study shows not only a social, political, and literary lineage among women’s history writing and fiction but also among women’s writing and the writing of history.


The Lives of the Novel

The Lives of the Novel

Author: Thomas G. Pavel

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0691165785

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Reprint. Originally published: Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, A 2013.


The Victorian Novel

The Victorian Novel

Author: Francis O'Gorman

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0470779853

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This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.