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Informationen zum Autor Thomas Keymer is Chancellor Jackman Professor of English at the University of Toronto! and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College! Oxford. His recent books include Sterne! the Moderns! and the Novel (2002)! Richardson's Clarissa and the Eighteenth-Century Reader (paperback edition! 2004) and Pamela in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland (with Peter Sabor! 2005). He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to English Literature from 1740 to 1830 (with Jon Mee! 2004) and The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne (in progress)! and co-general editor! with Peter Sabor! of The Cambridge Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (in progress). Jon Mee was educated at Newcastle University and the University of Cambridge. After a Junior Research Fellowship at Jesus College! Oxford! he took up his first permanent position at the Australian National University. He returned to the University of Oxford to take up the Margaret Candfield Fellowship in English at University College and a post in the Oxford English Faculty. He moved to the University of Warwick in 2007 and then took his current position as Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York in October 2013. Klappentext Offering an introduction to British literature challenging traditional eighteenth-century and Romantic studies! this Companion explores the development of literary genres and modes in a period of rapid change. Its contributors demonstrate how literature was influenced by such historical factors as the development of the book trade! the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. Linking established authors with those gaining new attention from scholars! the collection's broad scope makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism. Zusammenfassung This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. The volume focuses on broad themes including taste and aesthetics and pays close attention to the work of individual writers including Sterne! Blake! Barbauld and Austen. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Part I. Contexts and Modes: 1. Readers, writers, critics, and the professionalization of literature Barbara M. Benedict; 2. Criticism, taste, aesthetics Simon Jarvis; 3. Literature and politics Michael Scrivener; 4. Literature, national identity, and empire Saree Makdisi; 5. Sensibility Susan Manning; 6. Theatrical culture Gillian Russell; 7. Gothic James Watt; Part II. Writers, Circles, Traditions: 8. Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Sarah Fielding Peter Sabor; 9. Johnson, Boswell, and their circle Murray Pittock; 10. Sterne and Romantic autobiography Thomas Keymer; 11. Blake and the poetics of enthusiasm Jon Mee; 12. 'Unsex'd Females': Barbauld, Robinson, and Smith Judith Pascoe; 13. The Lake school: Wordsworth and Coleridge Paul Magnuson; 14. Jane Austen and the invention of the serious modern novel Kathryn Sutherland; 15. Keats, Shelley, Byron, and the Hunt circle Greg Kucich; 16. John Clare and the traditions of labouring-class verse John Goodridge and Bridget Keegan....
