A Companion to the English Novel

2015-08-17
A Companion to the English Novel

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  • Author: Stephen Arata
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1405194456
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 511

This collection of authoritative essays represents the latest scholarship on topics relating to the themes, movements, and forms of English fiction, while chronicling its development in Britain from the early 18th century to the present day. Comprises cutting-edge research currently being undertaken in the field, incorporating the most salient critical trends and approaches Explores the history, evolution, genres, and narrative elements of the English novel Considers the advancement of various literary forms – including such genres as realism, romance, Gothic, experimental fiction, and adaptation into film Includes coverage of narration, structure, character, and affect; shifts in critical reception to the English novel; and geographies of contemporary English fiction Features contributions from a variety of distinguished and high-profile literary scholars, along with emerging younger critics Includes a comprehensive scholarly bibliography of critical works on and about the novel to aid further reading and research

A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture

2009-10-19
A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture

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  • Author: Paula R. Backscheider
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1405192453
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 576

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

The Oxford Companion to English Literature

2009-09-24
The Oxford Companion to English Literature

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  • Author: Dinah Birch
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0192806874
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1184

Written by a team of more than 150 contributors working under the direction of Dinah Birch, and ranging in influence from Homer to the Mahabharata, this guide provides the reader with a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English literature.

A Companion to the English Novel

2019-01-29
A Companion to the English Novel

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  • Author: Stephen Arata
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1119068274
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 511

This collection of authoritative essays represents the latest scholarship on topics relating to the themes, movements, and forms of English fiction, while chronicling its development in Britain from the early 18th century to the present day. Comprises cutting-edge research currently being undertaken in the field, incorporating the most salient critical trends and approaches Explores the history, evolution, genres, and narrative elements of the English novel Considers the advancement of various literary forms – including such genres as realism, romance, Gothic, experimental fiction, and adaptation into film Includes coverage of narration, structure, character, and affect; shifts in critical reception to the English novel; and geographies of contemporary English fiction Features contributions from a variety of distinguished and high-profile literary scholars, along with emerging younger critics Includes a comprehensive scholarly bibliography of critical works on and about the novel to aid further reading and research

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830

2004-06-17
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830

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  • Author: Thomas Keymer
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521007573
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 332

This volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.

The Oxford Companion to the English Language

1996
The Oxford Companion to the English Language

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  • Author: Tom McArthur
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 9780198631361
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1076

This book contains over 2,000 articles by more than 100 contributors, covering the central aspects of the English language, especially grammar, usage and style, dialect, pronunciation and the history of English.

The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

2012-01-26
The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

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  • Author: Edward James
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107493730
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 298

Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).

The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature

2015-05-26
The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature

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  • Author: David Hillman
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107048095
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 293

This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the body in literature, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists

2009-12-10
The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists

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  • Author: Adrian Poole
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1139828118
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.

The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-century English Novel

2009
The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-century English Novel

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  • Author: Robert L. Caserio
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

The twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close readings of particular novels with a comprehensive survey of the last century of published fiction, this Companion introduces readers to more than a hundred major and minor novelists. It demonstrates continuities in novel-writing that bridge the century's pre- and post-War halves and presents leading critical ideas about English fiction's themes and forms. The essays examine the endurance of modernist style throughout the century, the role of nationality and the contested role of the English language in all its forms, and the relationships between realism and other fictional modes: fantasy, romance, science fiction. Students, scholars and readers will find this Companion an indispensable guide to the history of the English novel.