A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
Автор
 
Год
 
Страниц
 
576
ISBN
 
1405101571
Издатель
 
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Категория
 
Новинки Зарубежки

Описание:

A Companion to the Eighteenth-century English Novel and Culture provides an up-to-date resource for the study of this subject, foregrounding those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century. It considers not only the canonical literature of the period, but also the non-canonical literature, and the contexts in which the eighteenth-century novel was produced.The volume is divided into three parts exploring formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy. Each of these three parts is structured around the same themes, including globalization, nationhood, technology, commerce, science, and lifestyles. This allows the Companion to capitalize on cutting-edge scholarship without obscuring traditional parameters for the study of the eighteenth-century novel, such as narrative authority, print culture, and the rise of the novel as a pan-European phenomenon.The...

Похожие книги

Chance and the Eighteenth-Century NovelChance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Автор: Molesworth
Год: 2010
Русское открытие АмерикиРусское открытие Америки
Автор: В. Г. Крысько
Год: 2002