Technologies of the Novel: Quantitative Data and the Evolution of Literary Systems

ISBN-13: 9781108835503 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 215 str.

Nicholas D. Paige

Opis

The first quantitative history of the novel's evolution, written with the tools and perspectives provided by the digital humanities.

Recenzje

'… one can only be impressed with this highly original, thorough, and thought-provoking book. Anyone interested either in the history of the novel (whether French or not), or in current methods of Computational Literary Studies, should be reading Technologies of the Novel.' Christof Schöch, H-France

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I; 1. Truth Postures in the Novel of the Long Eighteenth Century; 2. The Rise and Fall of the Aristotelian Novel; Part II; 3. Novel v. Romance I: Heliodorian Insetting; 4. Novel v. Romance II: The Fortunes of a Subtitle; 5. Novel v. Romance III: Measuring romans and Nouvelles; 6. Documenticity I: Memoirs (and Other First Persons); 7. Documenticity II: The Two Rises of the Epistolary Novel; 8. A 'New' Third-Person Novel; 9. The Novel System in England, 1701-1810; Part III; 10. The Evolution of Literary Technologies; Bibliography; Index.