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Zusatztext An inclusive and judicious account of British fiction before 1750. ... Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. Informationen zum Autor Thomas Keymer is Chancellor Jackman Professor in the Arts and University Professor of English at the University of Toronto. He previously taught at St Anne's College, Oxford, where he remains a Supernumerary Fellow. He also serves as General Editor of The Review of English Studies and co-General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson. His most recent books include The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne (2009), the Oxford World's Classics edition of William Beckford's Vathek (2013) and Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660-1820, forthcoming in OUP's Clarendon Lectures in English series. Klappentext This edited volume explores prose from the origins of printing in late fifteenth-century England to the rise of the novel as a recognized, reputable genre in the mid eighteenth century. Zusammenfassung This edited volume explores prose from the origins of printing in late fifteenth-century England to the rise of the novel as a recognized, reputable genre in the mid eighteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editor's Preface Introduction Editorial Note Note on the British Currency before Decimalization Part 1: Fiction in the Marketplace 1: Paul Salzman: Authorship, Publication, Reception: 1470-1660 2: Robert D. Hume: Authorship, Publication, Reception: 1660-1750 3: Cathy Shrank: Cross-Sections: 1516-1520 4: Lori Humphrey Newcomb: Cross-Sections: 1596-1600 5: James Grantham Turner: Cross-Sections: 1666-1670 6: Pat Rogers: Cross-Sections: 1716-1720 Part 2: Early Modern Fiction - Sources and Modes 7: Alexandra Gillespie: Fiction and the Origins of Print 8: Robert H. F. Carver: English Fiction and the Ancient Novel 9: Helen Moore: Chivalric Romance and Novella Collections 10: Nandini Das: Euphuism and Courtly Fiction 11: Tiffany Stern: Nashe and Satire 12: R. W. Maslen: Elizabethan Popular Romance and the Popular Novel 13: Gavin Alexander: 'The conjunction cannot be hurtful'? Sidney's Arcadia and Mingled Genres 14: Daniel Carey: Utopian Fiction 15: Steven N. Zwicker: Royalist Romance? 16: Simon Dickie: Picaresque and Rogue Fiction 17: Brean Hammond: Cervantes, Anti-Romance, and the Novella 18: Nicholas McDowell: Rabelaisian Comedy and Satire 19: Michael Davies: Bunyan and Religious Allegory Part 3: Restoration Fiction and the Rise of the Novel 20: Nicholas Hudson: Formal Experimentation and Theories of Fiction 21: John Richetti: Non-Fictional Discourses and the Novel 22: Stuart Sherman: Finding Their Accounts: Autobiography, Novel, and the Move from Self 'to you-ward' 23: Ros Ballaster: Classical French Fiction and the Restoration Novel 24: Toni Bowers: Epistolary Fiction 25: Paul Baines: Pornography and the Novel 26: Jenny Davidson: Restoration Theatre, and the Novel 27: Cynthia Wall: Exploration, Expansion, and the Early Novel 28: James Watt: Arabian Nights and Oriental Spies 29: Moyra Haslett: The Rise of the Irish Novel 30: Jane Spencer: Scandal and Amatory Fiction 31: J. Paul Hunter: Defoe, Journalism, and the Early English Novel: Contexts and Models 32: Claude Rawson: Swift, Satire, and the Novel 33: Thomas Lockwood: The Pamela Debate 34: Alan Downie: Clarissa and Tom Jones 35: Peter Sabor: 'Moral Romance' and the Novel at Mid-Century ...
