English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 by Gary Kelly

English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 by Gary Kelly

English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 is the first comprehensive historical survey of fiction from that period for many decades. It combines a clear awareness of the period's social history with recent developments in literary criticism, theory and history, and explains the astounding variety of forms in Romantic fiction in terms of the various cultural, political, social, regional and gender conflicts of the time. It provides a broad-ranging survey from the major authors and works through to the sub-genres of the period. Jan Austin and Sir Alter Scott are discussed alongside the Gothic Romance, political and feminist fiction, social satire and regional, rural and historical novels. It also provides a comparison of the methods of distribution and marketing and the availability of books then and now; examines cheap popular fiction and children's fiction, and considers the recent debate about the place of prose fiction in a Romantic literature hitherto dominated by poetry.

"In his excellent study Kelly covers a massive amount of material know-ledgeably, coherently and effectively"

Eighteenth-Century Fiction

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ISBN 13	9780582492608
ISBN 10	0582492602
Title	English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830
Author	Gary Kelly
Series	Longman Literature In English Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	1989-03-20
Number of pages	344
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