UID:
edocfu_9959695963002883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 308 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-81669-1
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0-511-99924-0
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
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:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
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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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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 /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-00757-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-80974-6
Language:
English
