In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence
in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on
new research in social and political history, the twelve
contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional
view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each
seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its
realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural
functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture.
Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed,
alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson,
Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted
picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a
comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the
eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture
of its time.
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