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Jane Austen
Jane Austen is one of the most widely-read novelists in the English language, and one of very few pre-Victorian writers to have a large popular following. This book situates Austen in the literary and historical context of her time, and combines critical introductions to each of her six major novels with an exploration of key themes of her work.
'Pamela' in the Marketplace
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830
This volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.
Richardson's 'Clarissa' and the Eighteenth-Century Reader
Whilst drawing to some extent on recent theoretical studies, this book restores Clarissa to its largely neglected eighteenth-century context.
Robinson Crusoe (Translated and Adapted)
Robinson Crusoe: A Classic Adventure for Children Discover the magic of one of the greatest classics in world literature, now adapted especially for little readers! Daniel Defoe'sRobinson Crusoe is given a new lease of life in this edition carefully translated and adapted by Elderson Luciano Mezzomo, with simple and engaging language that captivates children aged 8 and up. Follow Robinson Crusoe on his extraordinary journey of survival on a desert island. Between shipwrecks, discoveries and challenges, he learns valuable lessons about courage, friendship and self-reliance. This adaptation not only preserves the essence of the original work, but also makes it accessible and entertaining for n...
Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel
Thomas Keymer is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada. The author of Tristram Shandy (1759-67) is often seen as an anachronism - a belated exponent of learned-wit satire whose kinship is with Montaigne, or a proto-modernist whose narrative pyrotechnics anticipate Joyce. Yet to many contemporaries Sterne's writing was emphatically of its immediate time, a voguish compound of all things modern that seemed to typify, if not indeed constitute, a 'Shandy-Age'. In this historicizing study, Thomas Keymer demonstrates the self-conscious imbrication of Tristram Shandy in the diverse literary culture of its extended moment. Not only absorbing but also updating Swift's Tale of a Tub, Sterne's t...
The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding
Now best known for three great novels - Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews and Amelia - Henry Fielding (1707–54) was one of the most controversial figures of his time. Prominent first as a playwright, then as a novelist and political journalist, and finally as a justice of peace, Fielding made a substantial contribution to eighteenth-century culture, and was hugely influential in the development of the novel as a form, both in Britain and more widely in Europe. This collection of specially-commissioned essays by leading scholars describes and analyses the many facets of Fielding's work in theatre, fiction, journalism and politics. In addition it assesses his unique contribution to the rise of the novel as the dominant literary form, the development of the law, and the political and literary culture of eighteenth-century Britain. Including a chronology and guide to further reading, this volume offers a comprehensive account of Fielding's life and work.
Henry Fielding - The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, Shamela, and Occasional Writings
This volume features two of Fielding's classic works as well as all other pieces not found in the 12 previous volumes of the nondramatic writings. Also included are writings attributed to Fielding, supplementary material relating to his Lisbon voyage, and full textual apparatus.
Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
Thomas Keymer's introduction to this casebook examines the historical context and controversial reception of Tristram Shandy, and connects the essays selected for inclusion to the diverse traditions of Sterne Criticism.
