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Zusatztext For anyone interested in the history of the novel, the publication of The English Novel 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey is unquestionably a major event. ...we owe a debt to the present editors and the team they have assembled, who have meticulously trawled the globe for extant copies, and who have taken the utmost care in the presentation of the material. Covering the key consolidating decades in the rise of the novel, it has been a Herculean task. If ever a work deserved the phrase, a monument to modern scholarship, it is this one. ... Both volumes come with a long, introductory essay: ... they are significant works in themselves. ... The introductions are generously supplied with tables and graphs which help the reader grasp the major trends at a glance. Informationen zum Autor Peter Garside is Reader in English Literature, Cardiff UniversityJames Raven is Reader in Social and Cultural History, University of OxfordRainer Schöwerling is Professor of English Literature, University of Paderborn, Germany Klappentext This is the first complete copy-based record of the English novel at a key moment in its development, during the Romantic era. There are almost 2,500 separate entries in all, providing accurate researched details of authors, bibliographical composition of books and the whereabouts of surviving copies. It is a valuable record of women's writing: indicating that as much as 60 per cent of fiction written at this time was by female authors. Zusammenfassung This work records full details of all known prose novels in English first published in the British Isles from 1800-1829. It includes new discoveries, attributions to a range of novelists and the first English translations of much Continental popular fiction.
