Before Jane Austen
Subtitle: The Shaping of the English Novel in the Eighteenth Century
By: by Harrison R. Steeves.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Description: Discusses Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Henry MacKenzie, Frances Burney, Samuel Johnson, William Beckford, Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Robert Bage, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, William Godwin, and Thomas Holcroft.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.