A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture

by Backscheider, Paula R.; Ingrassia, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9781405192453
• ISBN10: 1405192453
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-19
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral context Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century Explores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy Covers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and science Keeps readers abreast of current critical trends in the field Considers both canonical and non-canonical literature The editors and contributors are well-known and respected scholars in the field

Author Biography

Paula R. Backscheider is Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar at Auburn University. A former president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, she is best known as the author of Daniel Defoe: His Life (1989) and Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry (2005), for which she was co-winner of the Modern Language Association Lowell Prize.

Catherine Ingrassia is Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England (1998) and the editor of Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela (2004).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors.Introduction: Catherine Ingrassia (Virginia Commonwealth University).Shared Bibliography.PART I: Formative Influences.1 'I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it': Crusoe's Farther Adventures and the Unwritten History of the Novel: Robert Markley (University of Illinois).2 Fiction/Translation/Transnation: The Secret History of the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Srinivas Aravamudan (Duke University).3 Narrative Transmigrations: The Oriental Tale and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Ros Ballaster (Mansfield College, Oxford University).4 Age of Peregrination: Travel Writing and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Elizabeth A. Bohls (University of Oregon).5 Milton and the Poetics of Ecstasy in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Robert A. Erickson (University of California, Santa Barbara).6 Seduction Stories and Subaltern Resistance: Gender, Party, Nation: Toni Bowers (University of Pennsylvania).PART II: World of the Eighteenth-Century Novel.7 Why Fanny Can't Read: Joseph Andrews and the (Ir)relevance of Literacy: Paula McDowell (Rutgers University).8 Memory and Mobility: Fictions of Population in Defoe, Goldsmith, and Scott: Charlotte Sussman (University of Colorado).9 The Erotics of the Novel: James Grantham Turner (University of California, Berkeley).10 The Original American Novel: or, The American Origin of the Novel: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Yale University).11 The Early Novel and its Readers: The Case of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and the Hillarians: Kathryn R. King (University of Montevallo).12 Momentary Fame: Female Novelists in Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews: Laura L Runge (University of South Florida).13 Women, Old Age, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Devoney Looser (University of Missouri-Columbia).14 Joy and Happiness: Adam Potkay (College of William & Mary).PART III: The Novel's Modern Legacy.15 The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Print Culture: A Proposed Modesty: Christopher Flint (Case Western Reserve University).16 An Emerging New Canon of the British Eighteenth-Century Novel: Feminist Criticism, the Means of Cultural Production, and the Question of Value: John Richetti (University of Pennsylvania).17 Queer Gothic: George E. Haggerty (University of California, Riverside).18 Conversable Fictions: Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford University).19 Racial Legacies: The Speaking Countenance and the Character Sketch in the Novel: Roxann Wheeler (Ohio State University).20 Home Economics: Representations of Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Ruth Perry (MIT).21 Whatever Happened to the Gordon Riots? : Problems in Revolutionary Representation: Carol Houlihan Flynn (Tufts University).22 The Novel Body Politic: Susan S. Lanser (Brandeis University).23 Literary Culture as Immediate Reality: Paula R. Backscheider (Auburn University).Index