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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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The English Novel, Volume II: Smollett to Austen collects a series of previously-published essays on the early eighteenth-century novel in a single volume, reflecting the proliferation of theoretical approaches since the 1970s. The novel has been the object of some of the most exciting and important critical speculations, and the eighteenth-century novel has been at the centre of new approaches... Read more
General Editors' PrefaceEditor's PrefacePublisher's Acknowledgements Introduction 1. GENERAL ESSAYS: THE SENTIMENTAL AND THE GOTHIC1.1 George Starr , 'Only a Boy': Notes on Sentimental Novels.1.2 Margaret Anne Doody , Desserts, Ruins and Troubled Wasters: Female Dreams in Fiction and the Development of the Gothic Novel.2. SMOLLETT2.1 John Barrell , A Diffused Picture, An Uniform Plan: Roderick Random in the Labyrinth of Britain.2.2 Robert Folkenflik , Self and Society: Comic Union in Humphry Clinker.3. STERNE3.1 Jonathan Lamb, The Comic Sublime and Sterne's Fiction.3.2 Carol Kay, A Sentimental Journey: Purposeful Play.4. WALPOLE4.1 Ian P. Watt , Time and Family in the Gothic Novel: The Castle of Otranto.4.2 Julia Epstein , Cecilia: Money and Anarchy.5. WOLLSTONECRAFT 5.1 Mary Poovey , Mary Wollstonecraft: The Gender of Genres in Late Eighteenth-Century England.6. GODWIN6.1 Donald R. Wehrs , Rhetoric, History, Rebellion: Caleb Williams and the Subversion of Eighteenth-Century Fiction.7. AUSTEN7.1 Marilyn Butler , The Juvenalia and Northanger Abbey.7.2 Claudia L. Johnson , The Juvenalia and Northanger Abbey: The Authority of Men and Books.Notes on AuthorsFurther ReadingIndex
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Richard Kroll
