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Before fiction : the ancien régime of the novel /

Before Fiction asks why so many early novelists pretended their novels were literally true when no one believed them. For Nicholas D. Paige the answer lies in a radically new view of the formal history of the novel in England and France.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Paige, Nicholas D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The three regimes of the novel
  • The impossible Princess (Lafayette)
  • Quixote circa 1670 (Subligny)
  • How to read a mind (Crébillon)
  • The aesthetics of sentiment (Rousseau)
  • The demon of reality (Diderot)
  • Beyond belief (Cazotte)
  • Conclusion: On narrators natural and unnatural.