The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830
by Thomas Keymer
Cambridge Companions to Literature
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This 2004 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 book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The first part of the volume focuses on broad themes show more 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 role of 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 students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism. show lessTags
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Thomas Keymer is Elmore Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature, St. Anne's College, Oxford, and Lecturer in English Language and Literature, University of Oxford.
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- Canonical title
- The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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- 820.9 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures History, description, critical appraisal of works in more than one form
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- PR441 .C36 — Language and Literature English English Literature By period Modern 18th century
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