An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction Raising the Novel
The formal and expressive range of canonic eighteenth-century fiction is enourmous: between them Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne seem to have anticipated just about every question confronting the modern novelist; and Aphra Behn even raises a number of issues overlooked by her male s...
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Macmillan Education UK
2001, 2001
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Table of Contents:
- RAISING THE NOVEL
- Critics and Theorists
- Sounding the Canon
- Genre and Gender
- Two Literary Parabolas (i): Richardson from Familiar Letters to Grandison
- Two Literary Parabolas (ii): Fielding from Jonathan Wild to Amelia
- PART TWO: FICTIONAL PERSPECTIVES FROM BEHN TO AUSTEN
- Behn's Oroonoko and Defoe's Moll Flanders
- Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Smollett's Humphry Clinker
- Lennox's The Female Quixote and Burney's Evelina
- Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Godwin's Caleb Williams
- Austen's Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park
- Notes
- Appendix A: Mrs Barbauld's The British Novelists
- Appendix B: The Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Appendix C: The Chadwyck Healey Database
- Bibliography
- Index