A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture

Paula R. Backscheider, Catherine Ingrassia

Wiley, Dec 23, 2005 - Literary Criticism - 568 pages

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.

• 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
  

About the author

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 (1992).

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).

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture; Volume 95 of Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Editors: Paula R. Backscheider, Catherine Ingrassia
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Wiley, 2005
• ISBN: 1405101571, 9781405101578
• Length: 568 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh