Modern romance and transformations of the novel: the Gothic, Scott, Dickens

Modern Romance examines the relationship between the revival of romance form and the ascendancy of the novel in British literary culture, from 1760 to 1850. The revival of romance as the literary embodiment of a national cultural identity provided a metaphor for the 'authenticity' of the n...

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Main Author: Duncan, Ian 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1992
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627514
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627514
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627514
Summary:Modern Romance examines the relationship between the revival of romance form and the ascendancy of the novel in British literary culture, from 1760 to 1850. The revival of romance as the literary embodiment of a national cultural identity provided a metaphor for the 'authenticity' of the novel itself, set against the changing formations of modern life. The material conditions, cultural status and formal repertoire of prose fiction were given a canonical transformation, leading to the form's nineteenth-century heyday, in Scott's Waverley novels. Ian Duncan's illuminating and innovative study begins with the first identification of modern prose fiction with romance form in the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel, and moves through Scott's highly influential dialectical blend of romance and history, to his relations with his successor in the role of national author, Charles Dickens
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 295 pages)
ISBN:9780511627514
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511627514

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