The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780
Title | The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 PDF eBook |
Author | John Richetti |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 974 |
Release | 2005-01-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521781442 |
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. In essays by thirty distinguished scholars, recent historical perspectives and new critical approaches and methods are brought to bear on the classic authors and texts of the period. Forgotten or neglected authors and themes as well as new and emerging genres within the expanding marketplace for printed matter during the eighteenth century receive special attention and emphasis. The volume's guiding purpose is to examine the social and historical circumstances within which literary production and imaginative writing take place in the period and to evaluate the enduring verbal complexity and cultural insights they articulate so powerfully.
The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel PDF eBook |
Author | John Richetti |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 1996-09-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139825046 |
In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.
The New Cambridge History of English Literature
Title | The New Cambridge History of English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Clare A. Lees |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 6400 |
Release | 2013-05-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781107035034 |
A set of reference works on the history of English literature throughout the major periods of its development.
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Title | The Cambridge History of English and American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
The Cambridge History of English Literature
Title | The Cambridge History of English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Adolphus William Ward |
Publisher | Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 536 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature
Title | The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Marcus |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 912 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521820776 |
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 7, Modernism and the New Criticism
Title | The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 7, Modernism and the New Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | George Alexander Kennedy |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 584 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521300124 |
The history of the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including structuralism and deconstruction.