The Eighteenth-Century English Novel (Bloom's Period Studies).

Early novelists such as Samuel Richardson, Daniel Defoe, and Laurence Stern helped create the formula for the modern novel. This title, The Eighteenth Century English Novel, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Period Studies series, features a selection of critical essays analyzing the writers and works that defined the eighteenth century. In addition to a chronology of the important cultural, literary, and politcal events that shaped this period, this text includes an introduction and editor's note written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. 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. Sentiment From Afra Behn To Marivaux / James R. Foster -- Deserts, Ruins And Troubled Waters : Female Dreams In Fiction And The Development Of The Gothic Novel / Margaret Anne Doody -- The Comic Sublime And Sterne's Fiction / Jonathan Lamb -- Fielding : The Comic Reality Of Fiction / Sheridan Baker -- Crime And Adventure / Paula R. Backscheider -- An Architect's Imagination : The Rise Of Bath / Simon Varey -- The Job Controversy, Sterne, And The Question Of Allegory / Jonathan Lamb -- Fighting The Pharisees / Patrick Reilly -- Mythic And Historic Language In Smollett / John M. Warner -- The Tested Woman Plot / Lois E. Bueler -- The Don Juan Plot / Lois E. Bueler -- Caesar's Toils : Allusion And Rebellion In Oroonoko / David E. Hoegberg -- Gulliver's Travels And The Contracts Of Fiction / Michael Seidel -- Serializing A Self / Thomas Keymer. Edited And With An Introduction By Harold Bloom. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 413-418) And Index. Presents critical essays which discuss the writers and novels of eighteenth-century Britain, and includes a chronology of the cultural, political, and literary events of the period..