The eighteenth century English novel
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Bloom's period studies
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
Subjects: English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Description: A comprehensive view of the major literary movements in Western history - An introduction by Harold Bloom and a selection of critical essays provides scholarly analysis on the major writers and works that defined each literary period - Features a chronology of important cultural, literary, and political events that helped shape each literary period.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-418) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sentiment from Afra Behn to Marivaux / James R. Foster; title: Deserts, ruins and troubled waters : female dreams in fiction and the development of the gothic novel / Margaret Anne Doody; title: The comic sublime and Sterne's fiction / Jonathan Lamb; title: Fielding : the comic reality of fiction / Sheridan Baker; title: Crime and adventure / Paula R. Backscheider; title: An architect's imagination : the rise of Bath / Simon Varey; title: The Job controversy, Sterne, and the question of allegory / Jonathan Lamb; title: Fighting the Pharisees / Patrick Reilly; title: Mythic and historic language in Smollett / John M. Warner; title: The tested woman plot / Lois E. Bueler; title: The Don Juan plot / Lois E. Bueler; title: Caesar's toils : allusion and rebellion in Oroonoko / David E. Hoegberg; title: Gulliver's travels and the contracts of fiction / Michael Seidel; title: Serializing a self / Thomas Keymer.