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Without the Novel : Romance and the History of Prose Fiction /

No genre manifests the pleasure of reading--and its power to consume and enchant--more than romance. In suspending the category of the novel to rethink the way prose fiction works, Without the Novel demonstrates what literary history looks like from the perspective of such readerly excesses and adv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Black, Scott, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : romance and the turbulence of literary history
  • Reading mistakes in Heliodorus
  • The Origins of Romance
  • Romance redivivus
  • The adventures of love in Tom Jones
  • Tristram Shandy's strange loops of reading
  • Stasis and static in The wanderer
  • Coda : reading romance.