The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740–1830
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- Editors:
- Thomas Keymer, University of Toronto
- Jon Mee, University of Warwick
- Date Published: June 2004
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521007573
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This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The first part of the volume focuses on broad themes including taste and aesthetics, national identity and empire, and key cultural trends such as sensibility and the gothic. The second part pays close attention to the work of individual writers including Sterne, Blake, Barbauld and Austen, and to the role of literary schools such as the Lake and Cockney schools. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.
Read more- Offers unique and valuable overview bridging two important literary periods
- Covers a wide range of topics and writers including Sterne, Blake, Barbauld and Austen
- Accessibly written and comprehensive collection for students and scholars
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- Date Published: June 2004
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521007573
- length: 330 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 153 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.524kg
- contains: 6 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
Part I. Contexts and Modes:
1. Readers, writers, critics, and the professionalization of literature Barbara M. Benedict
2. Criticism, taste, aesthetics Simon Jarvis
3. Literature and politics Michael Scrivener
4. Literature, national identity, and empire Saree Makdisi
5. Sensibility Susan Manning
6. Theatrical culture Gillian Russell
7. Gothic James Watt
Part II. Writers, Circles, Traditions:
8. Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Sarah Fielding Peter Sabor
9. Johnson, Boswell, and their circle Murray Pittock
10. Sterne and Romantic autobiography Thomas Keymer
11. Blake and the poetics of enthusiasm Jon Mee
12. 'Unsex'd Females': Barbauld, Robinson, and Smith Judith Pascoe
13. The Lake school: Wordsworth and Coleridge Paul Magnuson
14. Jane Austen and the invention of the serious modern novel Kathryn Sutherland
15. Keats, Shelley, Byron, and the Hunt circle Greg Kucich
16. John Clare and the traditions of labouring-class verse John Goodridge and Bridget Keegan.
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