The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period

Book Overview

While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable range of popular works from the period have been re-discovered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521681081
• ISBN13: 9780521681087
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"