Recognizing the romantic novel : new histories of British fiction, 1780-1830 / edited by Jillian Heydt-Stevenson and Charlotte Sussman.

Originally published in 2008 as a hardback by Liverpool University Press.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1 'Launched Upon the Sea of Moral and Political Inquiry': The Ethical Experiments of the Romantic Novel; 2 Bad Marriages, Bad Novels: The 'Philosophical Romance'; 3 Enlightenment or Illumination: The Spectre of Conspiracy in Gothic Fictions of the 1790s; 4 Burney's Conservatism: Masculine Value and 'the Ingenuous Cecilia'; 5 'All Agog to Find Her Out': Compulsory Narration in The Wanderer; 6 A Select Collection: Barbauld, Scott, and the Rise of the (Reprinted) Novel.

7 Austen, Empire and Moral Virtue8 Fanny Price's British Museum: Empire, Genre, and Memory in Mansfield Park; 9 Between the Lines: Poetry, Persuasion, and the Feelings of the Past; 10 Scholarly Revivals: Gothic Fiction, Secret History, and Hogg's; 11 Sympathy, Physiognomy, and Scottish Romantic Fiction; Works Cited; Index.

The British Romantic era was a vibrant and exciting time in the history of the novel. Yet, aside from a few iconic books -Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein-it has been ignored or dismissed by later readers and critics. Bringing this rich but neglected body of works to the fore, Recognizing the Romantic Novel: New Histories of British Fiction, 1780-1830 challenges us to rethink our ideas of the novel as a genre, as well as our long-held assumptions about the literary movement of Romanticism. Ranging from pre-Revolution to post-Waterloo, this volume celebrates the experimental drive and revision.

English.

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