English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830
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English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830

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eBook - ePub

English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830

About this book

English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 is the first comprehensive historical survey of fiction from that period for many decades. It combines a clear awareness of the period's social history with recent developments in literary criticism, theory and history, and explains the astounding variety of forms in Romantic fiction in terms of the various cultural, political, social, regional and gender conflicts of the time.
It provides a broad-ranging survey from the major authors and works through to the sub-genres of the period. Jan Austin and Sir Alter Scott are discussed alongside the Gothic Romance, political and feminist fiction, social satire and regional, rural and historical novels. It also provides a comparison of the methods of distribution and marketing and the availability of books then and now; examines cheap popular fiction and children's fiction, and considers the recent debate about the place of prose fiction in a Romantic literature hitherto dominated by poetry.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781134960842
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Editors' Preface
  7. Longman Literature in English Series
  8. Author's Preface
  9. 1 Fiction and British Society 1789–1830
  10. 2 The 1790s: From Enlightenment and Sensibility to Romanticism–'Modern Novels' and 'Tales of the Times'
  11. 3 1800–1814: Beyond 'Tales of the Times'
  12. 4 'Only A Novel': Jane Austen
  13. 5 History and Romance: Sir Walter Scott
  14. 6 1815–1830: Romance, Realism, and Satire – The Limits of Romantic Culture
  15. 7 Conclusion: The Limits of Romantic Fiction
  16. Chronology
  17. General Bibliographies
  18. Individual Authors
  19. Index