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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the EighteenthCentury Novel
Book SynopsisDrawing on new research in social and political history, and offering detailed readings of key texts, this multifaceted picture of the British novel in its formative decades provides an indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century novel and its place within the culture of its time.Trade Review' … this is a collection that students of the English novel of this period will find useful as an introduction and as a guide to current opinion'. Forum for Modern Language StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction John Richetti; 2. The novel and social/cultural history J. Paul Hunter; 3. Defoe as an innovator of fictional form Max Novak; 4. Gulliver's Travels and the contracts of fiction Michael Seidel; 5. Samuel Richardson: fiction and knowledge Margaret Anne Doody; 6. Henry Fielding Claude Rawson; 7. Sterne and irregular rhetoric Jonathan Lamb; 8. Smollett's Humphry Clinker Michael Rosenblum; 9. The romance in Frances Burney's novels Julia Epstein; 10. Women writers and the eighteenth-century novel Jane Spencer; 11. Sentimental novels John Mullan; 12. Enlightenment, popular culture and Gothic fiction James Carson.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The English Novel in History 17001780 Novel in History S
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The English Novel in History 17001780
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the EighteenthCentury Novel
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of English Literature 16601780
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Robinson Crusoe
Book SynopsisAn instant success in its own time, Daniel Defoe''s The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe has for three centuries drawn readers to its archetypal hero, the man surviving alone on an island. This Companion begins by studying the eighteenth-century literary, historical and cultural contexts of Defoe''s novel, exploring the reasons for its immense popularity in Britain and in its colonies in America and in the wider European world. Chapters from leading scholars discuss the social, economic and political dimensions of Crusoe''s island story before examining the ''after life'' of Robinson Crusoe, from the book''s multitudinous translations to its cultural migrations and transformations into other media such as film and television. By considering Defoe''s seminal work from a variety of critical perspectives, this book provides a full understanding of the perennial fascination with, and the enduring legacy of, both the book and its iconic hero.Table of ContentsPreface John Richetti; Part I. Robinson Crusoe and Daniel Defoe: The Eighteenth Century: 1. Genre, nature, Robinson Crusoe J. Paul Hunter; 2. Robinson Crusoe and the form of the new novel Rivka Swenson; 3. Robinson Crusoe and Defoe's career as a writer Maximillian E. Novak; 4. Robinson Crusoe: housekeeping, gentility and property Pat Rogers; 5. Robinson Crusoe and its sequels: the farther adventures and serious reflections George A. Starr; 6. Politics, history, and the Robinson Crusoe story Rebecca Bullard; Part II. Robinson Crusoe in the Wider World: 7. Innovation and imitation in the eighteenth-century Robinsonade Carl Fisher; 8. The Crusoe story: philosophical and psychological implications Helen Thompson; 9. Robinson Crusoe and travel writing: the transatlantic world Eve Tabor Bannet; 10. Robinson Crusoe and colonialism Dennis Todd; Part III. Robinson Crusoe over Three Hundred Years: 11. The iconic Crusoe: illustrations and images of Robinson Crusoe David Blewett; 12. Robinsonades for young people Jill Campbell; 13. Anti-Crusoes, alternative Crusoes: revisions of the island story in the twentieth century Ann Marie Fallon; 14. Robinson Crusoe in the screen age Robert Mayer.
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Penguin Books Ltd Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisThe original tale of a castaway struggling to survive on a remote desert island, and one of the first novels in English The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. In his journal he chronicles his daily battle to stay alive, as he conquers isolation, fashions shelter and clothes, enlists the help of a native islander who he names 'Friday', and fights off cannibals and mutineers. Written in an age of exploration and enterprise, it has been variously interpreted as an embodiment of British imperialist values, as a portrayal of 'natural man', or as a moral fable. But above all is a brilliant narrative, depicting Crusoe's transformation from terrified survivor to self-sufficient master of an island. This edition contains a full chronology of Defoe's life and times, explanatory notes, glossary and a critical introduction discussing Robinson Crusoe as a pioneering work of modern psychological realism. For more than seventyTrade Review“Beyond the end of Robinson Crusoe is a new world of fiction. Even though it did not know itself to be a ‘novel,’ and even though there were books that we might now call ‘novels’ published before it, Robinson Crusoe has made itself into a prototype . . . Perhaps because of all the novels that we have read . . . the novelty of Defoe’s fiction is the more striking when we return to it. Here it is, at the beginning of things, with its final word reaching out into the future.” –from the Introduction by John Mullan
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Columbia University Press The Columbia History of the British Novel
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive history takes us from the birth of the novel in the 18th century through its growing pains in the 19th century to its angst-ridden maturity in the 20th century.Trade ReviewA highly recommended title which shouldn't be missed. The Midwest Book Review Useful for research. Library Journal
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of Daniel Defoe A Critical Biography
Book SynopsisThe Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe's writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. * A critical study of the writing of Daniel Defoe. * Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe's political and religious journalism, as well as on his narrative fictions.Trade Review“Richetti reminds us why so many of Defoe’s works are still worth reading … [The Life of Daniel Defoe] is a welcome addition to the family of biographies trying to render three-dimensional the man behind so many voices.” Studies In English Literature 1500-1900 "Richetti does a remarkable job." 18th-Century Studies "Richetti's contributions to the study of 18th century fiction have established him among the foremost critics…he has been brilliant in his treatment of Defoe." 1650-1850 Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era "Richetti conscientiously explains the political controversies that possessed Defoe … When he reaches his chapters on Defoe’s novels you get the eloquent condensation of his expertise." London Review of Books “[Richetti] brings us closer than any previous biographer to the personality that ‘must have been lurking somewhere behind the various voices that he projected’ over forty years of writing. This is an urbane, well informed, and interesting account, not only of Defoe but of the entire Defoe enterprise.” ScriblerianTable of ContentsPreface vi Acknowledgments x 1 Dissenter, Merchant, Speculator,Writer 1 2 Early Writings 1697–1703: Projects, Dissent, Poems 31 3 Political Journalism: 1697–1710 70 4 Political Agent and Journalist: Queen Anne to the Hanoverians 113 5 Moral, Social, and Economic Writings 1714–31 143 6 Robinson Crusoe 174 7 Travel, Politics, and Adventure 213 8 Crime and Narrative 234 9 Roxana: A Novel of Crime and Punishment 268 10 History, Facts, and Literature 301 11 Political Journalist and Moral Censor: 1715–31 337 Notes 362 Bibliography 390 Index 395
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Broadview Press Ltd Clarissa: Or, The History of a Young Lady
Book SynopsisThis classic novel tells the story, in letters, of the beautiful and virtuous Clarissa Harlowe's pursuit by the brilliant, unscrupulous rake Robert Lovelace. The epistolary structure allows Richardson to create layered and fully realized characters, as well as an intriguing uncertainty about the reliability of the various "narrators." Clarissa emerges as a heroine at once rational and passionate, self-sacrificing and defiant, and her story has gripped readers since the novel's first publication in 1747-1748.This new abridgment is designed to retain the novel's rich characterizations and relationships, and reproduces individual letters in their entirety whenever possible. This Broadview Edition provides a uniquely accessible entry point for readers, while retaining much of the powerful reading experience of the complete novel.Trade ReviewClarissa is one of the towering masterpieces of the eighteenth century, and it is impossible to understand the literature of the period and the rise of the novel without it. This new edition provides a rigorously conceived, expertly executed solution to the problem of abridgment, and restores to the undergraduate classroom a work previously excluded by sheer length." - Thomas Keymer, University of Toronto"Eager to introduce rather than replace a masterpiece, Richetti and Bowers offer a practical classroom compromise to the familiar problem of Richardson's prolixity. Surely an abridgment of this magnitude—with its smart choice of the 1751 third edition as copy text, its accessible introduction and notes, and an appendix that resurrects important historical contexts—will tempt new generations of readers to consider, eventually, all of Clarissa." - Janine Barchas, University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSamuel Richardson: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextClarissaAppendix A: Prefatory Material for the Second Edition, 1749Appendix B: Richardson’s Correspondence Correspondence with “Mrs. Belfour”/Lady Bradshaigh (1748–53) Letter 1: Lady Bradshaigh to Richardson Letter 2: Richardson to Lady Bradshaigh Letter 3: Lady Bradshaigh to Richardson Letter 4: Richardson to Lady Bradshaigh Letter 5: Richardson to Lady Bradshaigh Correspondence with Johannes Stinstra (1753–54) Letter 1: Richardson to Johannes Stinstra Letter 2: Johannes Stinstra to Richardson Letter 3: Richardson to Johannes Stinstra Appendix C: Eighteenth-Century Responses to Clarissa Henry Fielding, Letter to Richardson (1748) Sarah Fielding, Letter to Richardson (1749) Review of Clarissa by Albrecht Von Haller (1749) Review of Clarissa by Samuel Johnson (1750) Elizabeth Echlin, An Alternative Ending to Richardson’s Clarissa (1754–55) Denis Diderot, “In Praise of Richardson” (1761) From James Beattie, “On Fable and Romance” (1783) Anna Lætitia Aikin Barbauld, “The Life of Samuel Richardson, with Remarks on His Writings” (1804) Select Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Popular Fiction before Richardson Narrative Patterns 17001739 Clarendon Paperbacks
Book SynopsisNow issued for the first time in paperback with a new introduction by the author, this is a study of those narratives which were written and widely read in England during the first forty years of the eighteenth century, but which have been hitherto neglected or despised by historians of the novel. The author makes no claims for these works as literary achievements. They are seen, rather, as vigorous and highly successful commercial exploitations of enduring stereotypes such as the criminal, the traveller-merchant, the persecuted maiden, and the aristocratic seducer. Placing them against the background of the age, the book sets out to account for the attractiveness of such figures and their characteristic adventures, and to evaluate the importance of these narratives in providing a set of conventional and meaningful characters and situations for the mid-eighteenth century masters of the novel such as Richardson and Fielding.Trade Review`excellent and intelligent book' Times Literary Supplement`a real book, a good book. He is thoughtful and he makes you think. He sees the inherent triviality of his material, but sees in this a far from trivial question, "What is the use of bad art?" To raise the question at all is to give the book substance. It tells us that the material is going to be handled intelligently.' Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsThe rise of the novel reconsidered; rogues and whores - heroes and anti-heroes; travellers, priates and pilgrims - the pirate, Faustian ruffian, Crusoe and after; "as long as Atalantis shall be read" - the scandal chronicles of Mrs Manley and Mrs Haywood; Mrs haywood and the Novella - the erotic and the pathetic; the novel as pious polemic - Mrs Aubin and Mrs Barker, Mrs Elizabeth Rowe; the relevance of the unreadable.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of Daniel Defoe
Book SynopsisThe Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe's writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. * A critical study of the writing of Daniel Defoe. * Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe's political and religious journalism, as well as on his narrative fictions.Table of ContentsPreface vi Acknowledgments x 1 Dissenter, Merchant, Speculator,Writer 1 2 Early Writings 1697–1703: Projects, Dissent, Poems 31 3 Political Journalism: 1697–1710 70 4 Political Agent and Journalist: Queen Anne to the Hanoverians 113 5 Moral, Social, and Economic Writings 1714–31 143 6 Robinson Crusoe 174 7 Travel, Politics, and Adventure 213 8 Crime and Narrative 234 9 Roxana: A Novel of Crime and Punishment 268 10 History, Facts, and Literature 301 11 Political Journalist and Moral Censor: 1715–31 337 Notes 362 Bibliography 390 Index 395
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A History of EighteenthCentury British Literature
Book SynopsisA History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history. Capturing the richness and excitement of the era, this book provides extensive coverage of major authors, poets, dramatists, and journalists of the period, such as Dryden, Pope and Swift, while also exploring the works of important writers who have received less attention by modern scholars, such as Matthew Prior and Charles Churchill. Uniquely, the book also discusses noncanonical, working-class writers and demotic works of the era. During the eighteenth-century, Britain experienced vast social, political, economic, and existential changes, greatly influencing the literary world. The major forms of verse, poetry, fiction and non-fiction, experimental works, drama, and political prose from writers such as Montagu, Finch, Johnson, Goldsmith and Cowper, are discussed here in relation to their historical context. A History ofTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii Introduction 1 1 Verse in the Early Eighteenth Century, I: Pope, Gay, Swift 8 2 Verse in the Early Eighteenth Century, II: Prior, Addison, Defoe, Finch, Montagu, Thomson 59 3 English Verse, III: Mid-Century Onwards: Johnson, Gray, the Wartons, Collins, Smart, Watts, Goldsmith, Churchill, Cowper 92 4 Eighteenth-Century Verse, IV: Women, Workers, and Non-Elite Poets 132 5 Prose Fiction in the Early Eighteenth Century: Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Swift 153 6 Prose Fiction in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: Richardson, Fielding, Smollett 180 7 The Novel Past Mid-Century: New Directions and Experiments: Johnson, Sterne, Mackenzie, Walpole, Goldsmith, Burney 223 8 Non-Fictional Prose, I: Addison to Burke 254 9 Non-Fictional Prose, II: Political and Polemical Prose 291 10 Eighteenth-Century Drama: Sentimental Pathos, Melodrama, and Humor 319 Index 357
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