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