An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction

by John Skinner

Book Overview

The formal and expressive range of canonic eighteenth-century fiction is enourmous: between them Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne seem to have anticipated just about every question confronting the modern novelist; and Aphra Behn even raises a number of issues overlooked by her male successors. But one might also reverse the coin: much of what is present in these writers will today seem remote and bizarre. There is, in fact, only...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333776240
• ISBN13: 9780333776247
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.9"