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The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Hardcover)
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Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded
as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be
published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English
novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of
the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century-in other
words, from the later seventeenth century right through to the
first three decades of the nineteenth century when, with the
publication of the novels of Jane Austen and Walter Scott, 'the
novel' finally gained critical acceptance and assumed the position
of cultural hegemony it enjoyed for over a century. By situating
the novels of the period which are still read today against the
background of the hundreds published between 1660 and 1830, this
Handbook not only covers those 'masters and mistresses' of early
prose fiction-such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney,
Scott and Austen-who are still acknowledged to be seminal figures
in the emergence and development of the English novel, but also the
significant number of recently-rediscovered novelists who were
popular in their own day. At the same time, its comprehensive
coverage of cultural contexts not considered by any existing study,
but which are central to the emergence of the novel, such as the
book trade and the mechanics of book production, copyright and
censorship, the growth of the reading public, the economics of
culture both in London and in the provinces, and the re-printing of
popular fiction after 1774, offers unique insight into the making
of the English novel.
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