A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture
Autor: | Paula R. Backscheider, Catherine Ingrassia |
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EAN: | 9781405154505 |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 15.04.2008 |
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Schlagworte: | Backscheider Companion Eighteenth-Century Eighteenth Century Novel Ingrassia Novel |
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A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts.
Paula R. Backscheider is Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar at Auburn University. A former president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, she is best known as the author of Daniel Defoe: His Life (1989) and Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry (2005), for which she was co-winner of the Modern Language Association Lowell Prize.
- An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel
- Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral context
- Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century
- Explores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy
- Covers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and science
- Considers both canonical and non-canonical literature
Paula R. Backscheider is Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar at Auburn University. A former president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, she is best known as the author of Daniel Defoe: His Life (1989) and Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry (2005), for which she was co-winner of the Modern Language Association Lowell Prize.
Catherine Ingrassia is Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England (1998) and the editor of Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela (2004).