Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel
Subtitle: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780521021067
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction--19th century--History and cr; English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: The eighteenth-century Gothic novel is the first modern British fiction to identify itself as a distinct kind under the name of 'romance'.