English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830

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by Gary Kelly,

Edited by David Carroll and Michael Wheeler

Longman Group Uk Ltd

Due/Published January 1989, 330 pages, paper

ISBN 0582492602

The Romantic period has often been seen as dominated by the Romantic poets almost to the exclusion of the novel. In this descriptive and interpretative study of the fiction of the Romantic period in Britain, the author aims to redress the balance by offering an account of the astounding variety of forms of Romantic fiction in terms of social, cultural, political, regional and gender conflicts of the period. The book devotes entire chapters to important individual figures such as Austen and Scott and also loooks at gothic romance, political and feminist novels, domestic and rural tales, historical novels, satirical novels, popular fiction and children's fiction.