The novel as event
By: Mario Ortiz Robles.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780472071135; 9780472051137
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 19th century -- Stories, plots, etc; Speech acts (Linguistics) in literature; Events (Philosophy) in literature; Performative (Philosophy); Narration (Rhetoric)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: "I do"; title: What the novel does; title: Plotting Jane; title: Dickens and the secret; title: Thackeray's murderous realism; title: Middlevoice; title: Figure and affect in Collins; title: Afterword: after words.