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The eighteenth century witnessed an explosion in new literary and creative forms that rapidly expanded, and the relations between which became more complex. This has typically been described as a period that ushered in the novel form: the malleability of the concept of the novel genre and its history opens up intriguing possibilities for its role within wider networks of interartistic relationships in the period. This Companion is concerned with how the fertile conversations that different artforms enjoyed in the long eighteenth century intersected fruitfully with the emergent shapes of prose fiction. The essays comprising this volume range from the important overview to the case study, providing readers with a unique opportunity to navigate a vast and sprawling terrain through engaging scholarly insights.

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Among the many strengths of this generously conceived volume is its capacious definition of the arts and media with which the new genre interacted. The discussion ranges from the prestigious 'sister arts' of eighteenth-century aesthetics to an exciting hinterland of creative practices, from street ballads and domestic needlework to the sociable arts of conversation, politeness, even the 'art of tormenting'. --Thomas Keymer, University of Toronto

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Jakub Lipski is University Professor in the Department of Anglophone Literatures at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Before obtaining his PhD in English Literature, he had studied English, Cultural Studies and Art History. He is the author of Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth-Century English Robinsonade (2024), Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Studies in Reception (2021), Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (2018) and In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (2014). His research interests include eighteenth-century English fiction and culture, word and image crossovers, as well as reception and adaptation studies. M-C. Newbould is currently Assistant Professor at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, after having taught and researched at the University of Cambridge for many years. She specialises in eighteenth-century literature and visual culture, with a particular interest in Laurence Sterne, and in literary afterlives. Her monograph on Sternean adaptations appeared in 2013; she co-edited (with W. B. Gerard) an essay collection on Sterne's A Sentimental Journey in 2021, and with Helen Williams 'Laurence Sterne and Sterneana', an Open Access dataset hosted by Cambridge Digital Library (2022). She is an editor of international Sterne journal The Shandean.

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