The Cambridge companion to fiction in the Romantic period /
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cambridge companions to topics Cambridge companions to literature. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12476142 |
Summary: | While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable range of popular works from the period have been re-discovered and reread intensively. This Companion offers an overview of British fiction written between roughly the mid-1760s and the early 1830s and is an ideal guide to the major authors, historical and cultural contexts, and later critical reception. The contributors to this volume represent the most up-to-date directions in scholarship, charting the ways in which the period's social, political and intellectual redefinitions created new fictional subjects, forms and audiences. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-278) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780521862523 0521862523 9780521681087 0521681081 9781139001793 1139001795 1139817647 9781139817646 |