The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740–1830
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This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. The volume focuses on broad themes including taste and aesthetics and pays close attention to the work of individual writers including Sterne, Blake, Barbauld and Austen. List of illustrations
vii
List of contributors
viii
Preface
xi
Part I Contexts and modes
Readers, writers, reviewers, and the professionalization of literature
3(21)
Barbara M. Benedict
Criticism, taste, aesthetics
24(19)
Simon Jarvis
Literature and politics
43(18)
Michael Scrivener
Literature, national identity, and empire
61(19)
Saree Makdisi
Sensibility
80(20)
Susan Manning
Theatrical culture
100(19)
Gillian Russell
Gothic
119(20)
James Watt
Part II Writers, circles, traditions
Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Sarah Fielding
139(18)
Peter Sabor
Johnson, Boswell, and their circle
157(16)
Murray Pittock
Sterne and Romantic autobiography
173(21)
Thomas Keymer
Blake and the poetics of enthusiasm
194(17)
Jon Mee
`Unsex'd females': Barbauld, Robinson, and Smith
211(16)
Judith Pascoe
The Lake School: Wordsworth and Coleridge
227(17)
Paul Magnuson
Jane Austen and the invention of the serious modern novel
244(19)
Kathryn Sutherland
Keats, Shelley, Byron, and the Hunt Circle
263(17)
Greg Kucich
John Clare and the traditions of labouring-class verse
280(16)
John Goodridge
Bridget Keegan
Index
296
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