Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Cambridge companions online
Edition:
Cambridge collections online
Edition:
The Cambridge companions complete collection
Edition:
The Cambridge companions to literature and classics
ISBN:
0521007577
,
0521809746
,
9780521809740
,
9780521007573
,
9780511999246
Series Statement:
The Cambridge companions to literature and classics
Content:
This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The first part of the volume focuses on broad themes including taste and aesthetics, national identity and empire, and key cultural trends such as sensibility and the gothic. The second part pays close attention to the work of individual writers including Sterne, Blake, Barbauld and Austen, and to the role of literary schools such as the Lake and Cockney schools. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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PART I. CONTEXTS AND MODES ; Readers, writers, reviewers, and the professionalization of literature
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Criticism, taste, aesthetics
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Literature and politics
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Literature, national identity, and empire
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Sensibility
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Theatrical culture
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Gothic
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PART II. WRITERS, CIRCLES, TRADITIONS ; Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Sarah Fielding
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Johnson, Boswell, and their circle
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Sterne and Romantic autobiography
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Blake and the poetics of enthusiasm
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'Unsex'd females': Barbauld, Robinson, and Smith
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The Lake School: Wordsworth and Coleridge
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Jane Austen and the invention of the serious modern novel
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Keats, Shelley, Byron, and the Hunt circle
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John Clare and the traditions of labouring-class verse
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780511999246
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521809740
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Cambridge companion to English literature 1740-1830 Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004 ISBN 9780521007573
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521809740
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521007577
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521809746
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte 1740-1830
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/CCOL0521809746
