The Cambridge companion to fiction in the Romantic period

Publication Data

• Title The Cambridge companion to fiction in the Romantic period
• Alternative Title Fiction in the Romantic period
• Contributors Richard Maxwell, Katie Trumpener
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location Cambridge
• Language English

Contents

The historiography of fiction in the Romantic period / Richard Maxwell
Publishing, authorship, and Reading / William St Clair
Gothic fiction / Deidre Shauna Lynch
The historical novel / Richard Maxwell
Thinking locally: novelistic worlds in provincial fiction / Martha Bohrer
Poetry and the novel / Marshall Brown
Orientalism and empire / James Watt
Intellectual history and political theory / Paul Keen
Women writers and the woman's novel: The trope of maternal
Transmission / Jill Campbell
Tales for child readers / Katie Trumpener
Sentimental fiction / Ann Wierda Rowland
Fiction and the working classes / Gary Kelly
The Irish novel 1800-1829 / Ina Ferris
Scotland and the novel / Ian Duncan.

Topics

• English fiction :: 18th century :: History and criticism
• English fiction :: 19th century :: History and criticism
• Romanticism :: Great Britain
• Books and reading :: Great Britain :: History :: 18th century
• Books and reading :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• Gothic revival (Literature) :: Great Britain
• English literature :: Irish authors :: History and criticism
• English literature :: Scottish authors :: History and criticism
• Great Britain :: Intellectual life :: 18th century
• Great Britain :: Intellectual life :: 19th century
• Great Britain

The Cambridge companion to fiction in the Romantic period. ISBN 9780521681087. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.