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Novel Horizons : the Genre Making of Restoration Fiction.

Monograph on the history of the novel and of creative writing, from the English Restoration in the seventeenth century.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bayer, Gerd (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Note on the transcription of texts; Introduction: making novel readers; Part I The rise of the novel as genre; 1 The novel and its critics; 2 The temporality of genre; Antiquity: genre theory versus literary practice; The early modern age; Early twentieth century to (post- )structuralism; Reader-response theories; Bakhtin, Derrida, and the temporality of generic archives; Part II Paratexts: the genesis of genre; Introduction; 3 Seventeenth-century writing: shifting forms; 4 Paratext and drama.
  • 5 Paratext and proseDedicated readers; Deferred judgement; Beyond reality; Embodied morality; Paratextual limits and genre boundaries; Part III The Restoration novel; Introduction; 6 Narrating, telling, and speaking; 7 Types, characters, individuals; 8 Truth and fiction: reality and the page; Conclusion: reading a genre into being; Endnotes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Part II; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Part III; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Conclusion; Bibliography; primary sources; Anthologies; Serialised Publications; Anonymous Works; Early Modern Works; critical sources.