TY - BOOK ID - 2612098 TI - The Cambridge companion to the Eighteenth-Century novel PY - 1996 VL - *13 SN - 0521429455 0521419085 0511999399 1139815199 9780521419086 9780521429450 9780511999390 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - English fiction KW - Roman anglais KW - History and criticism. KW - Histoire et critique KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - English KW - English Literature KW - Languages & Literatures KW - 820-3 "17" KW - 820-3 "17" Engelse literatuur: proza--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 KW - Engelse literatuur: proza--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 KW - English literature KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism. KW - ROMAN ANGLAIS KW - 18E SIECLE KW - HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2612098 AB - In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time. ER -