"Brown presents his theory of the novel as institutionalized and institutionalizer in a manner often as engaging as that of his privileged authors. The result is a book that takes an erudite and elelgant next step in the debate over the origins of the novel."--Nancy Armstrong, Brown University "Must-read meditations on the mystical protocols and a priori assumptions of novel studies."--Deirdre Lynch, Novel In Institutions of the English Novel, Homer Obed Brown takes issue with the generally accepted origin of the novel in the early eighteenth century. Brown argues that what we now call...