The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
, by Downie, J. A.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780198857334 | 0198857330
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/13/2020
J. A. Downie, Professor of English, Goldsmiths, University of London
J. A. Downie is Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Pro-Warden (Academic). The author of five monographs, he has also edited three collections of essays, as well as editions of Defoe's political and social writings for Pickering & Chatto's The Complete Works of Daniel Defoe. For many years he was the editor of the section of The Scriblerian devoted to Defoe and the Early Novelists. His most recent book is A Political Biography of Henry Fielding.
Preface
PART I: 1660-1770: FROM 'NOVELS' TO WHAT IS NOT YET 'THE NOVEL'
The economics of culture 1660-1770
1. The Book Trade at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century, Peter Hinds
2. Business of Fiction: Novel Publishing, 1695-1774, Michael F. Suarez, S. J.
3. Social Structure, Class, and Gender, 1660-1770, Pat Rogers
4. Making Publics and Making Novels: Post-Habermasian Perspectives, Brian Cowan
Influences on the early English novel
5. The Continental Influence on the Eighteenth-Century Novel: 'The English Improve What Others Invent', Walter L. Reed
6. Criss-crossing the Channel: The French Novel and English Translation, Gillian Dow
7. Religious Writings and the Early Novel, W. R. Owens
8. Travel Literature and the Early Novel, Cynthia Wall
9. Secret History, Politics, and the Early Novel, Rebecca Bullard
Early 'Novels' and Novelists
10. Restoration Fiction, Thomas Keymer
11. Testing the Market: Robinson Crusoe and After, David Oakleaf
12. Gulliver Effects, Clement Hawes
13. 'Labours of the Press': The Response to Pamela , Peter Sabor
14. Samuel Richardson and the Epistolary Novel, John Dussinger
15. Henry Fielding and the Progress of Romance, Scott Black
16. Novels of the 1750s, Simon Dickie
17. 'Tristram is the Fashion': Sterne, Shandyism, and the sentimental novel, Tim Parnell
Epilogue: The English Novel at the end of the 1760s, J. A. Downie
PART II: 1770-1832: THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL
Literary Production 1770-1832
18. The Book Trade 1770-1832, John Feather
19. The Rise of the Illustrated English Novel to 1832, Robert Folkenflik
Authors, readers, reviewers, and critics, 1770-1832
20. Social Structure, Class and Gender, 1770-1832, W. A. Speck
21. 'Male' and 'Female' novels? Gendered Fictions and the Reading Public, 1770-1832, Barbara M. Benedict
22. Reviewing the Novel, Antonia Forster
23. 'Ordering' Novels: Describing Prose Fiction, 1770-1832, Peter Garside
Novels and Novelists, 1770-1832
24. The Rise and Decline of the Epistolary Novel, 1770-1832, Ros Ballaster
25. Developments in Sentimental Fiction, Geoffrey Sill
26. Philosophical Fictions and 'Jacobin' Novels in the 1790s, Deirdre Shauna Lynch
27. The Anti-Jacobin Novel, M. O. Grenby
28. The Gothic Novel and the Lingering Appeal of Romance, David H. Richter
29. Novel and Empire, Markman Ellis
30. The Popular Novel 1790 to 1820, Gary Kelly
31. The Evangelical Novel, Lisa Wood
32. 'Pictures of domestic Life in Country Villages': Jane Austen and the 'Realist' Novel, Jan Fergus
33. Authorizing the Novel: Walter Scott's Historical Fiction, Ina Ferris
34. Parody and Satire in the Novel, 1770-1832, Gary Dyer
Epilogue, J. A. Downie
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