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Zusatztext all these essays are brilliantly conceived and wonderfully executed. This volume is far better than what we usually think of when we think of the handbook genre. This makes for fascinating reading, and it would be a wonderful addition to any undergraduate class. Many of the essays have this added pedagogical function, and that is in part what makes this volume such a wonder. The other wonderful feature is the combined power of these works. It really feels as if we are getting the newest ideas and the supplest accounts of how novels functioned in eighteenth-century culture. This will be a book to treasure for some time to come. Informationen zum Autor J. A. Downie is Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Pro-Warden (Academic). The author of five monographs, he has also edited three collections of essays, as well as editions of Defoe's political and social writings for Pickering & Chatto's The Complete Works of Daniel Defoe. For many years he was the editor of the section of The Scriblerian devoted to Defoe and the Early Novelists. His most recent book is A Political Biography of Henry Fielding. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth Century Novel is the first published book to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. It is an indispensible resource for those with an interest in the history of the novel. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth Century Novel is the first published book to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. It is an indispensible resource for those with an interest in the history of the novel. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface PART I: 1660-1770: FROM 'NOVELS' TO WHAT IS NOT YET 'THE NOVEL' The economics of culture 1660-1770 1: Peter Hinds: The Book Trade at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century 2: Michael F. Suarez, S. J.: Business of Fiction: Novel Publishing, 1695-1774 3: Pat Rogers: Social Structure, Class, and Gender, 1660-1770 4: Brian Cowan: Making Publics and Making Novels: Post-Habermasian Perspectives Influences on the early English novel 5: Walter L. Reed: The Continental Influence on the Eighteenth-Century Novel: 'The English Improve What Others Invent' 6: Gillian Dow: Criss-crossing the Channel: The French Novel and English Translation 7: W. R. Owens: Religious Writings and the Early Novel 8: Cynthia Wall: Travel Literature and the Early Novel 9: Rebecca Bullard: Secret History, Politics, and the Early Novel Early 'Novels' and Novelists 10: Thomas Keymer: Restoration Fiction 11: David Oakleaf: Testing the Market: Robinson Crusoe and After 12: Clement Hawes: Gulliver Effects 13: Peter Sabor: 'Labours of the Press': The Response to Pamela 14: John Dussinger: Samuel Richardson and the Epistolary Novel 15: Scott Black: Henry Fielding and the Progress of Romance 16: Simon Dickie: Novels of the 1750s 17: Tim Parnell: 'Tristram is the Fashion': Sterne, Shandyism, and the sentimental novel Epilogue: The English Novel at the end of the 1760s PART II: 1770-1832: THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL Literary Production 1770-1832 18: John Feather: The Book Trade 1770-1832 19: Robert Folkenflik: The Rise of the Illustrated English Novel to 1832 Authors, readers, reviewers, and critics, 1770-1832 20: W. A. Speck: Social Structure, Class and Gender, 1770-1832 21: Barbara M. Benedict: 'Male' and 'Female' novels? Gendered Fictions and the Reading Public, 1770-1832 22: Antonia Forster: Reviewing the Novel 23: Peter Garside: 'Ordering' Novels: Describing Prose Fiction, 1770-1832 Novels and Novelists, 1770-1832 24: Ros Ballaster: The Rise and Decline of the Epistolary Novel, 1770-1832 25: Geoffrey Sill: Developments in Sentimental Fiction 26: Deirdre Shauna Lynch: Philosophical Fictions and 'Jac...
