An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction

by John Skinner

Book Overview

An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction deals with fiction of the "long 18th century", using a clearly defined pool of texts and corpus of writers. The first part of the study discusses the broader issues of definitions and approaches, genre and gender, and canon formation; the second part, after a more general discussion of Richardson and Fielding, offers a series of five paired readings, juxtaposing texts by Behn and Defoe, Sterne and Smollett,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333776240
• ISBN13: 9780333776247
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.9"