The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period

Richard Maxwell is Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. Katie Trumpener is Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University.

• Introduction Richard Maxwell and Katie Trumpener; 1. The historiography of fiction in the Romantic period Richard Maxwell; 2. Publishing, authorship, and reading William St Clair; 3. Gothic fiction Deidre Shauna Lynch; 4. The historical novel Richard Maxwell; 5. Thinking locally: novelistic worlds in provincial fiction Martha Bohrer; 6. Poetry and the novel Marshall Brown; 7. Orientalism and Empire James Watt; 8. Intellectual history and political theory Paul Keen; 9. Women writers and the woman's novel: the trope of maternal transmission Jill Campbell; 10. Tales for child readers Katie Trumpener; 11. Sentimental fiction Ann Wierda Rowland; 12. Fiction and the working classes Gary Kelly; 13. The Irish novel 1800–29 Ina Ferris; 14. Scotland and the novel Ian Duncan; Guide to further reading.

'The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period will be an essential addition to the humanities collections of academic libraries. It is an excellent introduction to an emerging corpus of literary works for undergraduate students, postgraduates on taught courses and the interested general reader.' Reference Reviews