OXF HIST NOV ENG TO 1750 VOL 1 OHNE C

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-958003-3
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 672 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1320 g

The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies.

Volume 1 explores the long period between the origins of printing in late fifteenth-century England and the establishment of the novel as a recognized, reputable genre in the mid eighteenth century. Later chapters in the volume provide original, authoritative accounts of innovations by the major canonical authors, notably Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding, who have traditionally been seen as pioneering 'the rise of the novel', in Ian Watt's famous phrase. With its extended chronological and geographical range, however, the volume also contextualizes these eighteenth-century developments in revelatory new ways, to provide a fresh, bold, and comprehensive account of the richness and variety of fictional traditions as they developed over two and a half centuries.

The volume thus establishes a newly comprehensive mapping of early fiction that rectifies the shortcomings and exclusions of established 'rise of the novel' scholarship. These include the relative neglect of the importance of women writers, following Behn's reinvention of romance in the 1680s, in shaping novelistic themes and techniques; a restrictive generic definition based on circumstantial and psychological realism to the exclusion of non-realist modes that flourished for centuries beforehand; a teleological bias that overlooks or downgrades phases and types of fiction production, such as the richly variegated category of Elizabethan fiction, that resist being assimilated into narratives of evolution or ascent; a reductive Anglocentrism that leaves out of account the translation, reception, and pervasive influence from the sixteenth century onwards of, among much else, the 'ancient novel' of Apuleius and Heliodorus; Byzantine, Arabian, and Eastern traditions; the Italian novella from Boccaccio to Bandello; Spanish picaresque and anti-romance; and a range of French narrative modes from Rabelais to Marivaux. Alongside these key contexts, the volume treats the emergent novel as, above all, a phenomenon of print culture, with close attention to conditions of authorship, publishing, and reading across the extended period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keymer, Thomas

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- General Editor's Preface

- Introduction

- Editorial Note

- Note on the British Currency before Decimalization

- Part 1: Fiction in the Marketplace

- 1: Paul Salzman: Authorship, Publication, Reception: 1470-1660

- 2: Robert D. Hume: Authorship, Publication, Reception: 1660-1750

- 3: Cathy Shrank: Cross-Sections: 1516-1520

- 4: Lori Humphrey Newcomb: Cross-Sections: 1596-1600

- 5: James Grantham Turner: Cross-Sections: 1666-1670

- 6: Pat Rogers: Cross-Sections: 1716-1720

- Part 2: Early Modern Fiction - Sources and Modes

- 7: Alexandra Gillespie: Fiction and the Origins of Print

- 8: Robert H. F. Carver: English Fiction and the Ancient Novel

- 9: Helen Moore: Chivalric Romance and Novella Collections

- 10: Nandini Das: Euphuism and Courtly Fiction

- 11: Tiffany Stern: Nashe and Satire

- 12: R. W. Maslen: Elizabethan Popular Romance and the Popular Novel

- 13: Gavin Alexander: 'The conjunction cannot be hurtful'? Sidney's Arcadia and Mingled Genres

- 14: Daniel Carey: Utopian Fiction

- 15: Steven N. Zwicker: Royalist Romance?

- 16: Simon Dickie: Picaresque and Rogue Fiction

- 17: Brean Hammond: Cervantes, Anti-Romance, and the Novella

- 18: Nicholas McDowell: Rabelaisian Comedy and Satire

- 19: Michael Davies: Bunyan and Religious Allegory

- Part 3: Restoration Fiction and the Rise of the Novel

- 20: Nicholas Hudson: Formal Experimentation and Theories of Fiction

- 21: John Richetti: Non-Fictional Discourses and the Novel

- 22: Stuart Sherman: Finding Their Accounts: Autobiography, Novel, and the Move from Self 'to you-ward'

- 23: Ros Ballaster: Classical French Fiction and the Restoration Novel

- 24: Toni Bowers: Epistolary Fiction

- 25: Paul Baines: Pornography and the Novel

- 26: Jenny Davidson: Restoration Theatre, and the Novel

- 27: Cynthia Wall: Exploration, Expansion, and the Early Novel

- 28: James Watt: Arabian Nights and Oriental Spies

- 29: Moyra Haslett: The Rise of the Irish Novel

- 30: Jane Spencer: Scandal and Amatory Fiction

- 31: J. Paul Hunter: Defoe, Journalism, and the Early English Novel: Contexts and Models

- 32: Claude Rawson: Swift, Satire, and the Novel

- 33: Thomas Lockwood: The Pamela Debate

- 34: Alan Downie: Clarissa and Tom Jones

- 35: Peter Sabor: 'Moral Romance' and the Novel at Mid-Century

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Keymer is Chancellor Jackman Professor in the Arts and University Professor of English at the University of Toronto. He previously taught at St Anne's College, Oxford, where he remains a Supernumerary Fellow. He also serves as General Editor of The Review of English Studies and co-General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson. His most recent books include The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne (2009), the Oxford World's Classics edition of William Beckford's Vathek (2013) and Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660-1820, forthcoming in OUP's Clarendon Lectures in English series.