The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

By: Richetti

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521429455
• ISBN13: 9780521429450
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"