Editorial: Cambridge University Press
Colección: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Número de páginas: 228 págs. 15.9 x 23.5 cm
Fecha de edición: 30-11-2023
EAN: 9781009274265
ISBN: 978-1-009-27426-5
Precio (sin IVA): 113,66 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 118,21 €
What was caricature to novelists in the Romantic period? Why does Jane Austen call Mr Dashwood's wife 'a strong caricature of himself'? Why does Mary Shelley describe the body of Frankenstein's creature as 'in proportion', but then 'distorted in its proportions' – and does caricature have anything to do with it? This book answers those questions, shifting our understanding of 'caricature' as a literary-critical term in the decades when 'the English novel' was first defined and canonised as a distinct literary entity.