Overview
- A new introduction to the key novelists of the long eighteenth century
Analyses novels in pairs to emphasise differences and similarities
Ideal introductory student text
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Fictional Perspectives from Behn to Austen
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An Introduction to Eighteenth Century Fiction is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to English fiction from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen. It deals with novel criticism, canon formation and relations between genre and gender. The second part of the book contains an extensive discussion of Richardson and Fielding, followed by paired readings of major eighteenth-century novels, juxtaposing texts by Behn and Defoe, Sterne and Smollett, Lennox and Burney among others. The various sections of the book, and even the individual chapters, may be read independently or in any order. Works are discussed in a way intended to help students who have not read them, and even engage with some who never will. The author consumes eighteenth-century fiction avidly, but has tried to write a reader-friendly survey for those who may not.
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Book Title: An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Book Subtitle: Raising the Novel
Authors: John Skinner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-62946-2
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2001
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 317
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature