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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 All Students Of Eighteenth-century Literature And Romanticism.--jacket. Part I. Contexts And Modes -- Readers, Writers, Reviewers, And The Professionalization Of Literature / Barbara M. Benedict -- Criticism, Taste, Aesthetics / Simon Jarvis -- Literature And Politics / Michael Scrivener -- Literature, National Identity, And Empire / Saree Makdisi -- Sensibility / Susan Manning -- Theatrical Culture / Gillian Russell -- Gothic / James Watt -- Part Ii. Writers, Circles, Traditions -- Richardson, Henry Fielding, And Sarah Fielding / Peter Sabor -- Johnson, Boswell, And Their Circle / Murray Pittock -- Sterne And Rom

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Author
Thomas Keymer and Jon Mee
Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press
Published
2004
Language
EN
ISBN
9780511999246
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

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