Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture

Backscheider, Paula R. (EDT); Ingrassia, Catherine (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1405192453 / ISBN 13: 9781405192453

Editore: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

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• Titolo: Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture
• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1405192453
• ISBN 13: 9781405192453
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: As New

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Riassunto

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
  

Informazioni sull'autore

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).