The Oxford History of the Novel in English Volume 2: English and British Fiction 1750-1820

by Garside, Peter; O'Brien, Karen

• ISBN13: 9780199574803
• ISBN10: 0199574804
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-04-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Peter Garside, Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh,Karen O'Brien, Vice Principal (Education) and Professor of English Literature,, King's College London

Peter Garside was educated at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, and taught English Literature for more than thirty years at Cardiff University, where became Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research. Subsequently he was appointed Professor of Bibliography and Textual Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has served on the Boards of Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and the Stirling / South Carolina Collected Editions of the Works of James Hogg, and has produced three volume apiece for each of these scholarly editions. He was one of the general editors of the ground-breaking bibliographical survey, The English Novel, 1770-1830, 2 vols (OUP, 2000), and directed the AHRB-funded online database, British Fiction, 1800-1829 (2004). Since retirement, he has continued to work on aspects of Romantic Studies, Scottish Literature, the Novel, and Book History.

Karen O'Brien is Vice-Principal (Education) and Professor of English Literature in the Department of English. She studied at the Sorbonne for a year before attending Oxford University where she graduated with a BA in English Literature and a D.Phil. She was awarded a Harkness Fellowship which she spent as a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a Research Fellowship at Peterhouse, Cambridge. She has held academic posts at the Universities of Southampton, Cardiff, and Warwick. Her research is in the area of the literature and intellectual history of the Enlightenment, with a particular focus on historical writing, imperial thought, ideas and debates about gender equality and (most recently) the history of the novel and Thomas Robert Malthus.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface
Introduction
Editorial Note
Part I: Book Production and Distribution
1.NBNBNBNBNB Production, James Raven
2.NBNBNBNBNB Authorship, Peter Garside
3.NBNBNBNBNB Circulation, David Allan
Part II: Major Authors and Traditions
4.NBNBNBNBNB The Novel in the 1750s, E. J. Clery
5.NBNBNBNBNB Tobias Smollett and the Ramble Novel, Simon Dickie
6.NBNBNBNBNB The Novelty of Laurence Sterne, James Chandler
7.NBNBNBNBNB Sentimental Fiction of the 1760s and 1770s, Helen Thompson
8.NBNBNBNBNB Bluestocking Women and Rational Female Fiction, Betty A. Schellenberg
9.NBNBNBNBNB The Novel of Sensibility in the 1780s, Caroline Franklin
10.NB Early Gothic Novels and the Belief in Fiction, Deidre Lynch
11.NB The Novel Wars of 1790 1804, Jon Mee
12.NB The National Tale, Claire Connolly
13.NB Gothic and Anti-Gothic, 1797 1820, Robert Miles
14.NB Evangelical Fiction, Anthony Mandal
15.NB Jane Austen s Domestic Realism, Vivien Jones
16.NB Historical Romance, Ina Ferris
17.NB Walter Scott and the Historical Novel, Ian Duncan
Part III: Generic Variations and Narrative Structures
18.NB It-Narratives and Spy Novels, Lynn Festa
19.NB Philosophical and Oriental Tales, Ros Ballaster
20.NB Epistolary Fiction, Nicola J. Watson
21.NB Celebrity and Scandalous Fiction, Clara Tuite
Part IV: Contexts
22.NB All in the Family: Consanguinity, Marriage, and Property, Ruth Perry
23.NB Fictions of the Union, Thomas Keymer
24.NB Imperial Commerce, Gender, and Slavery, Deirdre Coleman
Part V: Alternative Forms of Fiction
25.NB Fiction in the Magazines, Gillian Hughes
26.NB Short Fictional Forms and the Rise of the Tale, Anthony Jarrells
27.NB Children s and Juvenile Literature, M. O. Grenby
28.NB The Novel and the Stage, Gillian Russell
Part VI: Assimilation and Cultural Interchanges
29.NB Assimilating the Novel: Reviews and Collections, Michael Gamer
30.NB Readers and Reading Practices, Stephen Colclough
31.NB The Global British Novel, Wil Verhoeven
32.NB Foreign Imports, Jenny Mander
Afterword
33.NB The Rise of the Rise of the Novel, Clifford Siskin