Recognizing the Romantic Novel New Histories of British Fiction, 1780-1830

"The Romantic era was a vibrant and exciting time in the history of the novel. Yet, aside from a few iconic books - for example, Pride and Prejudice or Frankenstein - it has been ignored or dismissed by later readers and critics. Bringing this rich but neglected body of works to the fore, Recognizing the Romantic Novel challenges us to rethink our ideas of the novel as a genre, as well as our long-held assumptions about the literary movement of Romanticism."--BOOK JACKET.

Jillian Heydt-Stevenson is associate professor of English, comparative literature, and the humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the author of Austen’s Unbecoming Conjunctions. Charlotte Sussman is associate professor of English at Duke University and the author of Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713–1833.