English Novel, Vol II, The av Richard W.F. Kroll

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<I>The English Novel, Volume II: Smollett to Austen</I> collects a series of previously-published essays on the early eighteenth-century novel in a single volume, reflecting the proliferation of theoretical approaches since the 1970s. The novel has been the object of some of the most exciting and important critical speculations, and the eighteenth-century novel has been at the centre of new approaches both to the novel and to the period between 1750 and 1800. <BR><BR>Richard Kroll''s introduction seeks to frame the contributions by reference to the most significant critical discussions. These include: the general importance of ''sentimentalism'' as a cultural movement after 1750; its relationship to the emergence of the Gothic novel as a specific genre or mode; the rapid rise in the number of women novelists in the later eighteenth century; the relationship between the novel as mediator of social relations and the idea of the ''public sphere''; the relationship between novelistic codes