The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Daniel Cook, Nicholas Seager

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781107054684
• eBook ISBN: 9781316309230
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction probes the adaptation and appropriation of a wide range of canonical and lesser-known British and Irish novels in the long eighteenth century, from the period of Daniel Defoe and Eliza Haywood through to that of Jane Austen and Walter Scott. Major authors, including Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne, are discussed alongside writers such as Sarah Fielding and Ann Radcliffe, whose literary significance is now increasingly being recognised. By uncovering this neglected aspect of the reception of eighteenth-century fiction, this collection contributes to developing our understanding of the form of the early novel, its place in a broader culture of entertainment then and now, and its interactions with a host of other genres and media, including theatre, opera, poetry, print caricatures and film.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 On Authorship, Appropriation, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction
• Chapter 2 The Afterlife of Family Romance
• Chapter 3 From Pícaro to Pirate: Afterlives of the Picaresque in Early Eighteenth-Century Fiction
• Chapter 4 Ghosts of the Guardian in Sir Charles Grandison and Bleak House
• Chapter 5 The Novel’s Afterlife in the Newspaper, 1712-1750
• Chapter 6 Wit and Humour for the Heart of Sensibility: The Beauties of Fielding and Sterne
• Chapter 7 The Spectral Iamb: The Poetic Afterlives of the Late Eighteenth-Century Novel
• Chapter 8 Rethinking Fictionality in the Eighteenth-Century Puppet Theatre
• Chapter 9 The Novel in the Musical Theatre: Pamela, Caleb Williams, Frankenstein, and Ivanhoe
• Chapter 10 Gillray’s Gulliver and the 1803 Invasion Scare
• Chapter 11 Defoe’s Cultural Afterlife, Mainly on Screen
• Chapter 12 Happiness in Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and its Afterlife in Film
• Chapter 13 Refashioning The History of England: Jane Austen and 1066 and All That
• Select Bibliography
• Index