The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction

The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Author: Daniel Cook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316299120

The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction probes the adaptation and appropriation of a wide range of canonical and lesser-known British and Irish novels in the long eighteenth century, from the period of Daniel Defoe and Eliza Haywood through to that of Jane Austen and Walter Scott. Major authors, including Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne, are discussed alongside writers such as Sarah Fielding and Ann Radcliffe, whose literary significance is now increasingly being recognised. By uncovering this neglected aspect of the reception of eighteenth-century fiction, this collection contributes to developing our understanding of the form of the early novel, its place in a broader culture of entertainment then and now, and its interactions with a host of other genres and media, including theatre, opera, poetry, print caricatures and film.

The Examiner

The Examiner
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Total Pages: 856
Release: 1839
Genre: English literature
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The Beauties of Fielding

The Beauties of Fielding
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781379368342

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library W038338 Philadelphia: From the press of M. Carey, Oct. 27, M.DCC.XCII. [1792]. vi, [2], viii, [1],10-143, [1]p.; 18°

The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction

The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Author: Daniel Cook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107054680

This collection of essays offers insights into the ways in which eighteenth-century novels have been adapted and appropriated by later writers. It will be of interest to students of the rise of the novel, interdisciplinary approaches to literature, and the developing field of adaptation studies.