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Zusatztext Jargon-free prose makes this important collection accessible to a wide range of readers ... Essential. Informationen zum Autor Peter Garside was educated at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, and taught English Literature for more than thirty years at Cardiff University, where became Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research. Subsequently he was appointed Professor of Bibliography and Textual Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has served on the Boards of Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and the Stirling / South Carolina Collected Editions of the Works of James Hogg, and has produced three volume apiece for each of these scholarly editions. He was one of the general editors of the ground-breaking bibliographical survey, The English Novel, 1770-1830, 2 vols (OUP, 2000), and directed the AHRB-funded online database, British Fiction, 1800-1829 (2004). Since retirement, he has continued to work on aspects of Romantic Studies, Scottish Literature, the Novel, and Book History.Karen O'Brien is Vice-Principal (Education) and Professor of English Literature in the Department of English. She studied at the Sorbonne for a year before attending Oxford University where she graduated with a BA in English Literature and a D.Phil. She was awarded a Harkness Fellowship which she spent as a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a Research Fellowship at Peterhouse, Cambridge. She has held academic posts at the Universities of Southampton, Cardiff, and Warwick. Her research is in the area of the literature and intellectual history of the Enlightenment, with a particular focus on historical writing, imperial thought, ideas and debates about gender equality and (most recently) the history of the novel and Thomas Robert Malthus. Klappentext Volume 2 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English provides full and unprecedented coverage of a conventionally neglected period in the history of the novel, offering a broad historical context to the period which saw the emergence of the definiton of the novel as we now know it. Zusammenfassung Volume 2 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English provides full and unprecedented coverage of a conventionally neglected period in the history of the novel, offering a broad historical context to the period which saw the emergence of the definiton of the novel as we now know it. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editor's Preface Introduction Editorial Note Part I: Book Production and Distribution 1. Production 2. Authorship 3. Circulation Part II: Major Authors and Traditions 4. The Novel in the 1750s 5. Tobias Smollett and the Ramble Novel 6. The Novelty of Laurence Sterne 7. Sentimental Fiction of the 1760s and 1770s 8. Bluestocking Women and Rational Female Fiction 9. The Novel of Sensibility in the 1780s 10. Early Gothic Novels and the Belief in Fiction 11. The Novel Wars of 1790 1804 12. The National Tale 13. Gothic and Anti-Gothic, 1797 1820 14. Evangelical Fiction 15. Jane Austen s Domestic Realism 16. Historical Romance 17. Walter Scott and the Historical Novel Part III: Generic Variations and Narrative Structures 18. It-Narratives and Spy Novels 19. Philosophical and Oriental Tales 20. Epistolary Fiction 21. Celebrity and Scandalous Fiction Part IV: Contexts 22. All in the Family: Consanguinity, Marriage, and Property 23. Fictions of the Union 24. Imperial Commerce, Gender, and Slavery Part V: Alternative Forms of Fiction 25. Fiction in the Magazines 26. Short Fictional Forms and the Rise of the Tale 27. Children s and Juvenile Literature 28. The Novel and the Stage Part VI: Assimilation and Cultural Interchanges 29. Assimilating the Novel: Reviews and Co...
