Before Jane Austen - The Shaping of the English Novel in the Eighteenth Century

List of contents

1. View from Pisgah 2. From Arcadia to Mount Zion 3. Man on an Island (Daniel Defoe) 4. Saeva Indignatio (Jonathan Swift) 5. Virtue Rewarded (Samuel Richardson) 6. Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Perspective 7. A Manly Man (Henry Fielding) 8. Sad Dogs and Saints (Tobias Smollett) 9. Sentimentalism: A Literary Epidemic 10. 1750: Retrospect and Prospect 11. A Fellow of Infinite Jest (Laurence Sterne) 12. The Later Sentimentalists (Goldsmith and Mackenzie) 13. A Young Lady’s Entrance into the World (Frances Burney) 14. Oriental Romance (Johnson and Beckford) 15. The Gothic Romance (Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Lewis) 16. An Eighteenth-Century Shaw (Robert Bage) 17. Social Justice (Holcroft, Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft) 18. End of a Century (Principally Maria Edgeworth) 19. And Jane Austen. A Note on the Illustrations. Index.

About the author

Harrison R. Steeves

Summary

First published in 1965, in the words of the author: ‘This volume is to deal with the years in which the novel was still an experiment. At the beginning of the 18th century there was no novel. By the end, novels of every description were being published, not in dozens, but in hundreds.’

Product details

• Authors: Harrison R. Steeves, Steeves Harrison R.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780367819125
• ISBN: 978-0-367-81912-5
• No. of pages: 418
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800