Autorenportrait
Adrian Kempton was formerly lecturer in French, English and Comparative Literature at Queen’s University Belfast, University College Cork and the University of London Institute in Paris. He specializes in comparative eighteenth-century studies, with particular interests in epistolary writing, robinsonades, early children’s literature, salon art criticism and gardens. His publications include Survey of English Literature: from the Restoration to Pre-Romanticism, English for Science, The Mind’s Isle: Imaginary Islands in English Literature (Peter Lang, 2017), The Epistolary Muse: Women of Letters in England and France, 1652-1802 (Peter Lang, 2017) and Poetry in the Novel: Selected Case Studies (Peter Lang, 2018).
Inhalt
CONTENTS: Origins of a genre: Questions of terminology – European Romantic masterworks – Victorian verse novels and novellas – Modernist experimentation – Epic, science fiction and myth – Historical and picaresque narratives – Social issues, fantasy and crime – Amatory and epistolary strains – Autobiography and self-construction.
