The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period by Richard Maxwell

The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period by Richard Maxwell

While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable range of popular works from the period have been re-discovered and reread intensively. This Companion offers an overview of British fiction written between roughly the mid-1760s and the early 1830s and is an ideal guide to the major authors, historical and cultural contexts, and later critical reception. The contributors to this volume represent the most up-to-date directions in scholarship, charting the ways in which the period's social, political and intellectual redefinitions created new fictional subjects, forms and audiences.

'The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period will be an essential addition to the humanities collections of academic librariesIt is an excellent introduction to an emerging corpus of literary works for undergraduate students, postgraduates on taught courses and the interested general reader.' Reference Reviews

Richard Maxwell is Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. Katie Trumpener is Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University.

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ISBN 13	9780521681087
ISBN 10	0521681081
Title	The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period
Author	Richard Maxwell
Series	Cambridge Companions To Literature
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2008-02-21
Number of pages	308
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