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Author : Thomas Keymer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521849721
This Companion provides essays on the author of Tristram Shandy, his eighteenth-century context, his oeuvre and its reception.
Author : Tom Keymer
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Page : pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 2009
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ISBN : 9781139801225
Author : Thomas Keymer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827561
Best known today for the innovative satire and experimental narrative of Tristram Shandy (1759–67), Laurence Sterne was no less famous in his time for A Sentimental Journey (1768) and for his controversial sermons. Sterne spent much of his life as an obscure clergyman in rural Yorkshire. But he brilliantly exploited the sensation achieved with the first instalment of Tristram Shandy to become, by his death in 1768, a fashionable celebrity across Europe. In this Companion, specially commissioned essays by leading scholars provide an authoritative and accessible guide to Sterne's writings in their historical and cultural context. Exploring key issues in his work, including sentimentalism, national identity, gender, print culture and visual culture, as well as his subsequent influence on a range of important literary movements and modes, the book offers a comprehensive new account of Sterne's life and work.
Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139828118
In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.
Author : John Richetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 1996-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521429450
In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.
Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521515041
A survey of 25 major European novelists from Cervantes to Kundera, highlighting their contributions to the genre.
Author : Ian Campbell Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Laurence Sterne was in his mid-forties when the publication of Tristram Shandy catapulted him from obscurity into unprecedented literary fame. The story of how a provincial clergyman became the most fashionable writer of his day is extraordinary, and all the more remarkable for having beenengineered by its subject. 'I wrote not to be fed, but to be famous', Laurence Sterne declared of his comic masterpiece, and in order to achieve his ambition he became an assiduous networker, as astute a self-publicist as any modern author could hope to be. Shocked critics of Tristram Shandydenounced his bawdy novel as a scandal to the cloth but Sterne revelled in the celebrity his age's obsession with novelty and fashion allowed him. He at last found compensation for a life characterized by alternating moods of gaiety and gloom. Unhappily married to a woman who suffered a nervousbreakdown and at one time believed herself to be the Queen of Bohemia, Sterne became notorious for his sexual and sentimental liaisons with other women. His second book, A Sentimental Journey, transmuted his experiences into literary expressions of moral feeling. Dependent for so much of his life on patrons, it was the patronage of the reading public that was to secure his livelihood. Tristram Shandy remains one of the most innovative and influential novels in world literature, and Ian Campbell Ross makes full use of important new materials to examineSterne's life and career and the cult of the celebrity author.
Author : Edward Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139826212
Jane Austen's stock in the popular marketplace has never been higher, while academic studies continue to uncover new aspects of her engagement with her world. This fully updated edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Companion offers clear, accessible coverage of the intricacies of Austen's works in their historical context, with biographical information and suggestions for further reading. Major scholars address Austen's six novels, the letters and other works, in terms accessible to students and the many general readers, as well as to academics. With seven new essays, the Companion now covers topics that have become central to recent Austen studies, for example, gender, sociability, economics, and the increasing number of screen adaptations of the novels.
Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521871190
A survey of the most important British novelists of the past 250 years, for students of British fiction.
Author : Richard Maxwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827911
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.