TY - BOOK AU - J. A. Downie TI - The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth Century Novel SN - 9780198857334 U1 - 823.609 D7591 O PY - 2016/// CY - UK PB - OUP N1 - This Handbook surveys the development of the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century-in other words, from the later seventeenth century right through to the first three decades of the nineteenth century when, with the publication of the novels of Jane Austen and Walter Scott, 'the novel' finally gained critical acceptance and assumed the position of cultural hegemony it enjoyed for over a century ER -