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

The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel

2009-04-30
The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel

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  • Author: Robert L. Caserio
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1139828339
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • 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.

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 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.

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: 1139826719
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 493

This 2004 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 first part of the volume focuses on broad themes including taste and aesthetics, national identity and empire, and key cultural trends such as sensibility and the gothic. The second part pays close attention to the work of individual writers including Sterne, Blake, Barbauld and Austen, and to the role of literary schools such as the Lake and Cockney schools. 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.

A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945 - 2000

2008-04-15
A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945 - 2000

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  • Author: Brian W. Shaffer
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1405156163
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 608

A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene’s ‘Heart of the Matter’, Jean Rhys’s ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ and Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed

Before Novels

1990
Before Novels

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  • Author: J. Paul Hunter
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • ISBN: 9780393308617
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 452

"By taking a close look at materials no previous twentieth-century critic has seriously investigated in literary terms--ephemeral journalism, moralistic tracts, questions-and-answer columns, 'wonder' narratives--Paul Hunter discovers a tangled set of roots for the early novel. His provocative argument for a new historicized understanding of the genre and its early readers brilliantly reveals unexpected affinities." --Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, University of Virginia

The Cambridge Companion to the Novel

2018-06-28
The Cambridge Companion to the Novel

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  • Author: Eric Bulson
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107156211
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 339

This Companion focuses on the novel as a global genre and examines its role, impact and development.

The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

1996-09-05
The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

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  • Author: John Richetti
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521429450
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 308

In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.