The English Novel, Vol II: Smollett to Austen

ISBN-13: 9780582099692 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 330 str.

Richard Kroll

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Following from Volume 1, this text includes critical approaches to the 18th-century novel, discussing topics such as the Gothic novel, the rise in the number of women novelists in the later 18th century, the class conflicts of writers like Smollett, and the effects of the French Revolution.

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General Editors' Preface
Editor's Preface
Publisher's Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. GENERAL ESSAYS: THE SENTIMENTAL AND THE GOTHIC
1.1 George Starr, "'Only a Boy': Notes on Sentimental Novels."
1.2 Margaret Anne Doody, "Desserts, Ruins and Troubled Wasters: Female Dreams in Fiction and the Development of the Gothic Novel."

2. SMOLLETT
2.1 John Barrell, "A Diffused Picture, An Uniform Plan: Roderick Random in the Labyrinth of Britain."
2.2 Robert Folkenflik, "Self and Society: Comic Union in Humphry Clinker."

3. STERNE
3.1 Jonathan Lamb, "The Comic Sublime and Sterne's Fiction."
3.2 Carol Kay, "A Sentimental Journey: Purposeful Play."

4. WALPOLE
4.1 Ian P. Watt, "Time and Family in the Gothic Novel: The Castle of Otranto."
4.2 Julia Epstein, "Cecilia: Money and Anarchy."

5. WOLLSTONECRAFT
5.1 Mary Poovey, "Mary Wollstonecraft: The Gender of Genres in Late Eighteenth-Century England."

6. GODWIN
6.1 Donald R. Wehrs, "Rhetoric, History, Rebellion: Caleb Williams and the Subversion of Eighteenth-Century Fiction."

7. AUSTEN
7.1 Marilyn Butler, "The Juvenalia and Northanger Abbey."
7.2 Claudia L. Johnson, "The Juvenalia and Northanger Abbey: The Authority of Men and Books."

Notes on Authors
Further Reading
Index

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Richard Kroll