Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611487021 ISBN 13: 9781611487022

Publisher: Bucknell University Press (UK), 2015

Synopsis

Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered beginswith the brute fact that poetry jostledup alongside novels in the bookstallsof eighteenth-century England. Indeed,by exploringunexpected collisions and collusionsbetween poetry and novels, this volumeof exciting, new essays offers a reconsideration of the literary and cultural history of the period. Thenovel poached from and featured poetry, and the “modern” subjects and objects privileged by “rise of the novel” scholarship are only one part of a world full of animate things and people with indistinct boundaries.

Contributors: Margaret Doody, David Fairer, Sophie Gee, Heather Keenleyside, ShelleyKing, Christina Lupton, Kate Parker, Natalie Phillips, Aran Ruth, Wolfram Schmidgen, Joshua Swidzinski, and Courtney Weiss Smith.

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About the Author

Kate Parker is assistant professor of English at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Her article on Sade appeared in Eighteenth-Century Fiction. She is writing a book that explores how affective communities impact literary representations of selfhood in eighteenth-century Britain and France.

Courtney Weiss Smith is assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University. She is the author of articles on eighteenth-century literature and culture that have appeared in Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation and SEL. Her current book project focuses on relationships between literature, religion and science in early eighteenth-century England.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bucknell University Press (UK)
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611487021
• ISBN 13: 9781611487022
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Kate Parker, Courtney Weiss Smith