New Directions in the History of the Novel [electronic resource] /
Parrinder, P.editor.
Nash, A.editor.
Wilson, N.editor.
New Directions in the History of the Novel challenges received views of literary history and sets out new areas for research. A re-examination of the nature of prose fiction in English and its study from the Renaissance to the 21st century, it will become required reading for teachers and students of the novel and its history.
Description based upon print version of record.
Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I: The Material Text; 2 Novel Designs: Manipulating the Page in English Fiction, 1660-1780; 3 Textual Instability and the Contemporary Novel: Reading Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing On and Off the Page; 4 The Early American Novel in Fragments: Writing and Reading Serial Fiction in the Post-Revolutionary United States; 5 Archive Fever: The Publishers' Archive and the History of the Novel; Part II: Literary Histories: Questions of Realism and Form
6 Memory, Interiority and Historicity: Some Factors in the Early Novel7 A Gothic History of the British Novel; 8 Critical Histories of Omniscience; 9 The 'power of the written word': Literary Impressionism, Politics and Anxiety; 10 Virginia Woolf and Metonymic Realism: Making It New?; Part III: The Novel in National and Transnational Cultures; 11 Defining an 'Age of the Novel' in the United States; 12 Between Modernism and the Postcolonial: Reading Patrick White and Malcolm Lowry in the 1970s; 13 Transporting Fiction: The Novel in a (Post)Colonial World; Part IV: The Novel Now
14 Art Unseduced by Its Own Beauty: Toni Morrison and the Humility of Experiment15 The Dynamics of Residual and Emergent in the American Novel after 1940; Index
Includes bibliographical references.
New Directions in the History of the Novel challenges received views of literary history and sets out new areas for research. A re-examination of the nature of prose fiction in English and its study from the Renaissance to the 21st century, it will become required reading for teachers and students of the novel and its history.
British literature.
America-Literatures.
Literature   .
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Literature-History and criticism.
British and Irish Literature.
North American Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Literary History.