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• W2803755807 abstract "Reviewed by: A Companion to the English Novel ed. by Stephen Arata et al. Anne H. Stevens A Companion to the English Novel, ed. Stephen Arata, Madigan Haley, J. Paul Hunter, and Jennifer Wicke. Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2015. Pp. xiv + 497. $199.95. Does the world need another companion to the English novel? With so much material already out there, a new and expensive reference work might seem inessential. The ninetieth installment in the Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series, A Companion to the English Novel is a helpful addition to the numerous reference works on British fiction, however. Its most striking and distinguishing features are the coverage of British fiction into the twenty-first century and the high caliber of its contributors, including such luminaries as Patricia Meyer Spacks, J. Paul Hunter, and John Richetti. Its twenty-nine chapters in seven sections include concentrations on notable decades in the history of the novel, key subgenres, and theories of the novel. Each chapter is written in a lively and accessible style and is followed by a list of references. Many chapter titles are straightforward—The 1740s, Gothic, London—while several others reflect a more distinctive take on their subject matter, such as Deidre Lynch's A Character of Character, in Five Metaphors and Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse's The Network Novel and How It Unsettled Domestic Fiction. This variety of chapter titling reflects the hybrid nature of the collection: at times it reads like a reference work aimed at providing general knowledge of crucial topics in the history of the English novel, while at other times it more closely resembles a specialized monograph. Both beginning researchers and seasoned specialists should find something to interest them. [End Page 171] Readers of The Scriblerian will be particularly interested in the healthy assortment of chapters that discuss novels of the long eighteenth century. The first two chapters in the volume discuss key decades in our century, Ms. Spacks's The 1740s and Lynn Festa's The 1790s. Because of its placement at the head of the volume, Ms. Spacks's essay seems to indicate a starting-point of sorts, and few would disagree with the significance of the 1740s in the genre's development. However, its placement underplays the significance of novelists before the 1740s, the writers of picaresque, scandal, and amatory fictions that dominated the late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century literary marketplace. In contrast, Ms. Festa's chapter casts a wider net, admirably suggesting that we recognize that exhausted or unsuccessful forms—the literary dead end, the technical failure, the aesthetic mistake, the one-hit wonder, the honorable mention, and the also-rans—are also part of the history of the novel, enabling us to read literary history with an eye not just to progress and supersession, but also to the persistence of tapped-out genres and the agency of forms that proved not to have a future. Unfortunately, those suggestions are not taken up by many of the other contributors, most of whom concentrate on the forms and authors who were most successful. Mr. Richetti's Realism and the Eighteenth-Century Novel refreshingly begins with a discussion of Don Quixote, a text neither English nor eighteenth-century but one that merits inclusion in their discussion. Alongside these chapters, many others discuss eighteenth-century texts within larger contexts. One that productively crosses period boundaries is Mark Blackwell's Experimental Fictions, which discusses eighteenth-century it-narratives alongside high modernist landmarks. In a broader sense, one of the greatest strengths of this collection is its ability to bring together marquee-name eighteenth-centuryists and scholars of later periods while simultaneously and happily including essays that connect eighteenth-century novels to works of later eras. Besides the aforementioned chapters, Laurie Langbauer's Romance, Cynthia Wall's London, and John Paul Riquelme's Gothic all address eighteenth-century texts and topics in relation to such larger contexts. Too often discussions of the eighteenth-century novel seem to be relegated to eighteenth-century venues, so it is a pleasure to see our period represented not in a token way but as central to ongoing..." @default.
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