Literatura Victoriana

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740–1830
This volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the booktrade, the rise of literary criticism, and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The first part of the volume focuses on broad themes including taste and aesthetics, national identity and empire, and key cultural trends such as sensibility and the gothic. The second part pays close attention to the work of individual writers including Sterne, Blake, Barbauld, and Austen, and to the roleof literary schools such as the ‘Lake’ and ‘Cockney’ schools. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for all students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.

THE CAMBRIDGE C O M PA N I O N T O

E N G L I S H L I T E R AT U R E 1740–1830
EDITED BY

THOMAS KEYMER
University ofOxford

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JON MEE
University of Oxford

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List of illustrations List of contributors Preface Part I Contexts and modes 1 Readers, writers, reviewers, and the professionalization of literature ba rba r a m . b e n e d i c t 2 Criticism, taste, aesthetics s i m o n ja rv i s 3 Literature and politics michael scrivener 4 Literature, national identity, and empire sa r e e m a k d i s i 5 Sensibility s u sa n m a n n i n g 6 Theatrical culture g i l l i a n ru s s e l l 7 Gothic ja m e s wat t

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Part II Writers,circles, traditions 8 Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Sarah Fielding p e t e r sa b o r 9 Johnson, Boswell, and their circle m u r r ay p i t to c k 10 Sterne and Romantic autobiography t h o m as k e y m e r 11 Blake and the poetics of enthusiasm jo n m e e 12 ‘Unsex’d females’: Barbauld, Robinson, and Smith j u d i t h pas c o e 13 The Lake School: Wordsworth and Coleridge pau l m ag n u s o n 14Jane Austen and the invention of the serious modern novel k at h ry n s u t h e r l a n d 15 Keats, Shelley, Byron, and the Hunt circle greg kucich 16 John Clare and the traditions of labouring-class verse jo h n g o o d r i d g e a n d b r i d g e t k e e g a n Index 139

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1 The Circulating...