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The Oxford History of the Novel in English - Volume 2: English and British Fiction 1750-1820 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R5,535
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English - Volume 2: English and British Fiction 1750-1820 (Hardcover): Peter Garside, Karen...

The Oxford History of the Novel in English - Volume 2: English and British Fiction 1750-1820 (Hardcover)

Peter Garside, Karen O'Brien

Series: Oxford History of the Novel in English

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The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies. Volume 2 examines the period from1750-1820, which was a crucial period in the development of the novel in English. Not only was it the time of Smollett, Sterne, Austen, and Scott, but it also saw the establishment and definition of the novel as we know it, as well as the emergence of a number of subgenres, several of which remain to this day. Conventionally however, it has been one of the least studied areas-seen as a falling off from the heyday of Richardson and Fielding, or merely a prelude to the great Victorian novelists. This volume takes full advantage of recent major advances in scholarly bibliography, new critical assessments, and the fresh availability of long-neglected fictional works, to offer a new mapping and appraisal. The opening section, as well as some remarkable later chapters, consider historical conditions underlying the production, circulation, and reception of fiction during these seventy years, a period itself marked by a rapid growth in output and expansion in readership. Other chapters cover the principal forms, movements, and literary themes of the period, with individual contributions on the four major novelists (named above), seen in historical context, as well as others on adjacent fields such as the shorter tale, magazine fiction, children's literature, and drama. The volume also views the novel in the light of other major institutions of modern literary culture, including book reviewing and the reprint trade, all of which played a part in advancing a sense of the novel as a defining feature of the British cultural landscape. A focus on 'global' literature and imported fiction in two concluding chapters in turn reflects a broader concern for transnat onal literary studies in general.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford History of the Novel in English
Release date: February 2015
Editors: Peter Garside (Honorary Professorial Fellow) • Karen O'Brien (Vice Principal (Education) and Professor of English Literature,)
Dimensions: 253 x 181 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 702
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-957480-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
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LSN: 0-19-957480-4
Barcode: 9780199574803

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