The Cambridge History of the English Novel

Cambridge University Press, 1/12/2012
EAN 9780521194952, ISBN10: 0521194954

Hardcover, 958 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 5.1 cm
Language: English

The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrative of the novel's progress unfolds in more than fifty chapters, charting continuities and innovations of structure, tracing lines of influence in terms of themes and techniques, and showing how greater and lesser authors shape the genre. Pushing beyond the usual period-centered boundaries, the History's emphasis on form reveals the range and depth the novel has achieved in English. This book will be indispensable for research libraries and scholars, but is accessibly written for students. Authoritative, bold and clear, the History raises multiple useful questions for future visions of the invention and re-invention of the novel.

Introduction Robert L. Caserio and Clement Hawes
1. The novel before 'the novel' John Richetti
2. Biographical form in the novel Alan Downie
3. Legal discourse and novelistic form Eleanor Shevlin
4. Novelistic history Clement Hawes
5. Interiorities Elaine McGirr
6. Samuel Richardson Carol Flynn
7. Domesticity and novel narratives Cynthia Wall
8. Obscenity and the erotics of fiction Tom Keymer
9. Cognitive alternatives to interiority Lisa Zunshine
10. The novel, the British nation, and Britain's four kingdoms Janet Sorensen
11. Money's productivity in narrative fiction Liz Bellamy
12. 'The southern unknown countries'
imagining the Pacific in the eighteenth-century novel Robert Markley
13. Editorial fictions
paratexts, fragments, and the novel Barbara Benedict
14. Extraordinary narrators
it-narratives and metafiction Mark Blackwell
15. Romance redivivus Scott Black
16. Gothic success and Gothic failure
formal innovation in a much-maligned genre George Haggerty
17. Sir Walter Scott
historiography contested by fiction Murray Pittock
18. How and where we live now
Edgeworth, Austen, Dickens, and Trollope Barry Weller
19. From Wollstonecraft to Gissing and Hardy
the revolutionary emergence of women, children, and labor in novelistic narrative Carolyn Lesjak
20. Space and places (I)
the four nations Deborah Epstein Nord
21. Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Gaskell
politics and its limits Amanda Anderson
22. Populations
pictures of prose in Hardy, Austen, Eliot, and Thackeray Aaron Fogel
23. The novel amid new sciences Phillip Mallett
24. George Eliot's past and present
emblematic histories Barry V. Qualls
25. The Bildungsroman Brigid Lowe
26. The novel and social cognition
internalist and externalist perspective Alan Palmer
27. Clamors of Eros Richard A. Kaye
28. The novel as immoral, antisocial force Christopher Lane
29. Sensations
Gothic, horror, crime fiction, detective fiction Peter K. Garrett
30. Realism and romance Francis O'Gorman
31. Representations of spaces and places (II)
around the globe David James
32. Imperial romance Robert L. Caserio
33. The art novel
impressionists and aesthetes Jesse Matz
34. The impact of lyric, drama, and verse narrative on novel form Stefanie Markovits
35. Henry James and Joseph Conrad
the pursuit of autonomy Robert Hampson
36. Joyce
the modernist novel's revolution in matter and manner Derek Attridge
37. Richardson, Woolf, Lawrence
the modernist novel's experiments with narrative (I) Mark Wollaeger
38. Wells, Forster, Firbank, Lewis, Huxley, Compton-Burnett, Green
the modernist novel's experiments with narrative (II) Jonathan Greenberg
39. Beyond autonomy
political dimensions of modernist novels Morag Shiach
40. Fiction by women
continuities and changes, 1930–1990 Elizabeth Maslen
41. The novel amidst other discourses Patricia Waugh
42. The novel and thirty years of war Marina MacKay
43. Thrillers Allan Hepburn
44. Novelistic complications of spaces and places
the four nations and regionalism Dominic Head
45. The series novel
a dominant form Suzanne Keen
46. The novel's West Indian revolution Peter Kalliney
47. Post-war renewals of experiment, 1945–1979 Philip Tew
48. The novel amidst new technology and media Julian Murphet
49. Novels of same-sex desire Gregory Woods
50. From Wells to John Berger
the social democratic era of the novel Charles Ferrall
51. The postcolonial novel
history and memory C. L. Innes
52. History and heritage
the English novel's persistent historiographical turn Peter Childs
53. Twentieth-century satire
the poetics and politics of negativity James F. English
54. Unending romance
science fiction and fantasy in the twentieth century Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn
Bibliography
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