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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Black, Scott, 1964- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.