Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction Raising the Novel

An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fictiondeals with fiction of the "long 18th century", using a clearly defined pool of texts and corpus of writers. The first part of the study discusses the broader issues of definitions and approaches, genre and gender, and canon formation; the second part, after a more general discussion of Richardson and Fielding, offers a series of five paired readings, juxtaposing texts by Behn and Defoe, Sterne and Smollett, Lennox and Burney, Radcliffe and Godwin and Austen.Skinner, John is the author of 'Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction Raising the Novel', published 2000 under ISBN 9780333776247 and ISBN 0333776240.