The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable range of popular works from the period have been re-discovered and reread intensively. This Companion offers an overview of British fiction written between roughly the mid-1760s and the early 1830s and is an ideal guide to the major authors, historical and cultural contexts, and later critical reception. The contributors to this volume represent the most up-to-date directions in scholarship, charting the ways in which the period's social, political and intellectual redefinitions created new fictional subjects, forms and audiences. 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. 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. Edited By Richard Maxwell, Katie Trumpener. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 265-278) And Index. Cover......Page 1 The Cambridge companion to fiction in the romantic period......Page 2 Contents......Page 6 List of illustrations......Page 8 Notes on contributors......Page 10 Chronology......Page 14 Introduction......Page 20 1 The historiography of fiction in the Romantic period......Page 26 2 Publishing, authorship, and reading......Page 42 3 Gothic fiction......Page 66 4 The historical novel......Page 84 5 Thinking locally: novelistic worlds in provincial fiction......Page 108 6 Poetry and the novel......Page 126 7 Orientalism and empire......Page 148 8 Intellectual history and political theory......Page 162 9 Women writers and the woman’s novel: the trope of maternal transmission......Page 178 10 Tales for child readers......Page 196 11 Sentimental fiction......Page 210 12 Fiction and the working classes......Page 226 13 The Irish novel 1800–1829......Page 254 14 Scotland and the novel......Page 270 Guide to further reading......Page 284 Index......Page 298