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Prose fiction in English from the origins of print to 1750
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ISBN: 9780199580033 0199580030 0191869732 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Volume 1 explores the long period between the origins of printing in late fifteenth-century England and the establishment of the novel as a recognized, reputable genre in the mid eighteenth century. Later chapters in the volume provide original, authoritative accounts of innovations by the major canonical authors, notably Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding, who have traditionally been seen as pioneering 'the rise of the novel', in Ian Watt's famous phrase. With its extended chronological and geographical range, however, the volume also contextualizes these eighteenth-century developments in revelatory new ways, to provide a fresh, bold, and comprehensive account of the richness and variety of fictional traditions as they developed over two and a half centuries.


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The Cambridge companion to Laurence Sterne
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ISBN: 9780521614948 9781139002592 9780521849722 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge New York Melbourne : Cambridge University Press,

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Best known today for the innovative satire and experimental narrative of Tristram Shandy (1759–67), Laurence Sterne was no less famous in his time for A Sentimental Journey (1768) and for his controversial sermons. Sterne spent much of his life as an obscure clergyman in rural Yorkshire. But he brilliantly exploited the sensation achieved with the first instalment of Tristram Shandy to become, by his death in 1768, a fashionable celebrity across Europe. In this Companion, specially commissioned essays by leading scholars provide an authoritative and accessible guide to Sterne's writings in their historical and cultural context. Exploring key issues in his work, including sentimentalism, national identity, gender, print culture and visual culture, as well as his subsequent influence on a range of important literary movements and modes, the book offers a comprehensive new account of Sterne's life and work.


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Jane Austen : writing, society, politics
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ISBN: 9780198861904 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." So runs one of the most famous opening lines in English literature. Setting the scene in 'Pride and Prejudice', it deftly introduces the novel's core themes of marriage, money, and social convention, themes that continue to resonate with readers over 200 years later. Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of unpublished works. Her books pioneered new techniques for representing voices, minds, and hearts in narrative prose, and, despite some accusations of a blinkered domestic and romantic focus, they represent the world of their characters with unsparing clarity. Here, Tom Keymer explores the major themes throughout Austen's novels, setting them in the literary, social, and political backgrounds from which they emerge, and showing how they engage with social tensions in an era dominated by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The Jane Austen who emerges is a writer shaped by the literary experiments and socio-political debates of her time, increasingly drawn to a fundamentally conservative vision of social harmony, yet forever complicating this vision through her disruptive ironies and satirical energy.


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Poetics of the pillory : English literature and seditious libel, 1660-1820
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ISBN: 9780198744498 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy : a casebook
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ISBN: 0195175603 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford ; New York Oxford University Press

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The Cambridge companion to English literature, 1740 to 1830.
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ISBN: 0521809746 0521007577 0511999240 1139816691 9780521809740 9780521007573 9780511999246 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"This 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 wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for all students of eighteenth-century literature and romanticism."--Jacket.

Pamela in the marketplace : literary controversy and print culture in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland.
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ISBN: 0521813379 9780521813372 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press

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Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) is often regarded as the first true novel in English and a landmark in literary history. As the best selling novel of its time, it provoked a swarm of responses: panegyrics and critiques, parodies and burlesques, piracies and sequels, comedies and operas. The controversy it inspired has become a standard point of reference in studies of the rise of the novel, the history of the book and the emergence of consumer culture. In the first book-length study of the Pamela controversy since 1960, Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor offer an original definitive account of the novel's enormous cultural impact.


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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
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ISBN: 1282346644 9786612346644 019156818X 9780191568183 019922997X 9780199229970 9780199229970 0191607843 0191956309 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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What then is to be done? said Rasselas; the more we inquire, the less we can resolve.'Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the 'happy valley' in order to make their 'choice of life'. By witnessing the misfortunes and miseries of others they may come to understand the nature of happiness, and value it more highly. Their travels and enquiries raise important practical and philosophical questions concerning many aspects of the human condition, including the business of a poet, the stability of reason, the immortality of the soul, and how to find contentment. Johnson's adaptation of

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Robinson Crusoe
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ISBN: 128114701X 9786611147013 0191517852 9780191517853 9780192833426 0192833421 0199553971 9780199553976 6611147012 0192833421 9781281147011 0191921874 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This new edition of Defoe's masterpiece includes a lively introduction by Tom Keymer, full notes and useful appendices, including a chronology of the action of the story and Defoe's most sustained commentary on it.

Pamela, or: Virtue rewarded
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ISBN: 0192829602 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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