The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-107-05468-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 610 g

The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction probes the adaptation and appropriation of a wide range of canonical and lesser-known British and Irish novels in the long eighteenth century, from the period of Daniel Defoe and Eliza Haywood through to that of Jane Austen and Walter Scott. Major authors, including Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne, are discussed alongside writers such as Sarah Fielding and Ann Radcliffe, whose literary significance is now increasingly being recognised. By uncovering this neglected aspect of the reception of eighteenth-century fiction, this new collection contributes to developing our understanding of the form of the early novel, its place in a broader culture of entertainment then and now, and its interactions with a host of other genres and media, including theatre, opera, poetry, print caricatures and film.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, Daniel

Seager, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. On authorship, appropriation, and eighteenth-century fiction Daniel Cook; 2. The afterlife of family romance Michael McKeon; 3. From Pícaro to Pirate: afterlives of the Picaresque in early eighteenth-century fiction Leah Orr; 4. Ghosts of the guardian in Sir Charles Grandison and Bleak House Sarah Raff; 5. The novel's afterlife in the newspaper, 1712–1750 Nicholas Seager; 6. Wit and humour for the heart of sensibility: the beauties of Fielding and Sterne M.-C. Newbould; 7. The spectral iamb: the poetic afterlife of the late eighteenth-century novel Dahlia Porter; 8. Rethinking fictionality in the eighteenth-century puppet theatre David A. Brewer; 9. The novel in musical theatre: Pamela, Caleb Williams, Frankenstein and Ivanhoe Michael Burden; 10. Gillray's Gulliver and the 1803 invasion scare David Francis Taylor; 11. Defoe's cultural afterlife, mainly on screen Robert Mayer; 12. Happiness in Austen's Sense and Sensibility and its afterlife in film Jill Heydt-Stevenson; 13. Refashioning The History of England: Jane Austen and 1066 and All That Peter Sabor; Select bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Cook, Daniel
Daniel Cook is Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee. He is the author of Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760–1830 (2013) and the editor of The Lives of Jonathan Swift (2011) and the co-editor (with Amy Culley) of Women's Life Writing: Gender, Genre, and Authorship, 1700–1850 (2012). Daniel has published essays on a range of topics ranging from Pope to Wordsworth in such journals as The Library, Philological Quarterly, and The Review of English Studies.

Seager, Nicholas
Nicholas Seager is Lecturer in English at Keele University. He has published essays on authors ranging from John Bunyan to Oliver Goldsmith, and in journals including the Modern Language Review, The Library, Philological Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and The Eighteenth-Century Novel. He is the author of The Rise of the Novel: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism (2012) and a forthcoming monograph, Daniel Defoe and the History of Fictional Form.