A Companion to the English Novel

ISBN-13: 9781119068273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 512 str.

Stephen Arata;Madigan Haley;J. Paul Hunter

Opis

This collection of authoritative essays represents the latest scholarship on topics relating to the themes, movements, and forms of English fiction, while chronicling its development in Britain from the early 18th century to the present day. Comprises cutting-edge research currently being undertaken in the field, incorporating the most salient critical trends and approaches Explores the history, evolution, genres, and narrative elements of the English novel Considers the advancement of various literary forms - including such genres as realism, romance, Gothic, experimental fiction, and adaptation into film Includes coverage of narration, structure, character, and affect; shifts in critical reception to the English novel; and geographies of contemporary English fiction Features contributions from a variety of distinguished and high-profile literary scholars, along with emerging younger critics Includes a comprehensive scholarly bibliography of critical works on and about the novel to aid further reading and research

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors viiiPreface xiiiPart I The Novel and Its Histories 11 The 1740s 3Patricia Meyer Spacks2 The 1790s 18Lynn Festa3 The 1850s 34Ivan Kreilkamp4 The Long 1920s 49Jennifer Wicke5 The 2000s 71Ashley DawsonPart II The Novel and Its Genres 876 Realism and the Eighteenth-Century Novel 89John Richetti7 Romance 103Laurie Langbauer8 Gothic 117John Paul Riquelme9 Popular and Mass-Market Fiction 132Janice Carlisle10 Experimental Fictions 144Mark Blackwell11 The Novel into Film 159Jonathan FreedmanPart III The Novel in Pieces 17512 Some Versions of Narration 177Alison Booth13 Some Versions of Form 192Stephen Arata14 A Character of Character, in Five Metaphors 209Deidre Lynch15 Affect in the English Novel 225Nicholas DalyPart IV The Novel in Theory 23916 The Novel in Theory before 1900 241James Eli Adams17 The Novel in Theory, 1900-1965 256Chris Baldick18 The Novel in Theory after 1965 271Madigan HaleyPart V The Novel in Circulation 28919 Making a Living as an Author 291Deirdre David20 The Network Novel and How It Unsettled Domestic Fiction 306Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse21 Reading Novels, Alone and in Groups 321Andrew ElfenbeinPart VI Geographies of the Novel 33922 London 341Cynthia Wall23 The Provincial Novel 360John Plotz24 Intranationalisms 373James Buzard25 Internationalisms and the Geopolitical Aesthetic 387Lauren M. E. GoodladPart VII The Novel, Public and Private 40726 The Novel and the Everyday 409Kate Flint27 The Public Sphere 426John Marx28 The Novel and the Nation 441Christopher GoGwilt29 World English/World Literature 456Jonathan AracIndex 471

O autorze

Stephen Arata is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. In addition to Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (1996) and many essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, he is a General Editor of the 38-volume New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (2014).Madigan Haley holds a PhD from the Department of English at the University of Virginia, where he is a Postdoctoral Preceptor. A comparatist with a special focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century anglophone literature, he has published on the global novel in The Minnesota Review and in Novel: A Forum on Fiction. His current book project explores how contemporary world literature gives form to an ethical notion of the global.J. Paul Hunter is Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Professor, Emeritus, at the University of Chicago and Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia. His publications include Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction (1990), winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.Jennifer Wicke, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of Advertising Fictions: Literature, Advertisement, and Social Reading (1988) and the co-editor of Feminism and Postmodernism (1994). She has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature from a global anglophone perspective.