Without the novel : romance and the history of prose fiction /

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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 adve...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Black, Scott, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Fiction > History and criticism.
Romances > History and criticism.
Romance fiction > History and criticism.
Adventure stories > History and criticism.
Reality in literature.
English fiction > History and criticism.
Roman > Histoire et critique.
Roman courtois > Histoire et critique.
Réalité dans la littérature.
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Adventure stories
English fiction
Fiction
Reality in literature
Romance-language fiction
Romances
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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