This collection of authoritative essays represents the latest scholarship on topics relating to the themes, movements, and forms of English fiction, while chronicling its development in Britain from the early 18th century to the present day. ...
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This collection of authoritative essays represents the latest scholarship on topics relating to the themes, movements, and forms of English fiction, while chronicling its development in Britain from the early 18th century to the present day. Comprises cutting-edge research currently being undertaken in the field, incorporating the most salient critical trends and approaches Explores the history, evolution, genres, and narrative elements of the English novel Considers the advancement of various literary forms - including such genres as realism, romance, Gothic, experimental fiction, and adap
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Part I The Novel and Its Histories; Chapter 1 The 1740s; Notes; References; Chapter 2 The 1790s; Notes; References; Chapter 3 The 1850s; Consensus, Harmony, Equipoise?; Wreck and Illth; Realism, Culture, History; Natives and Foreigners; Systems, Institutions, Contagion; Mudie Rules and Aesthetics of Discretion; References; Chapter 4 The Long 1920s; References; Chapter 5 The 2000s; The Present; The Past; The Future; Notes; References; Part II The Novel and Its Genres; Chapter 6 Realism and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
ReferencesChapter 7 Romance; 1; 2; 3; References; Chapter 8 Gothic; Describing the Gothic; Continuity and Changes in the Gothic: Female Agency, Colonial Situations, Betwixt & Between; Gothic Narrative Structures and Styles: Dark Pastoral and the Coexistence of Opposites; Gothic and/as monsters; References; Chapter 9 Popular and Mass-Market Fiction; Notes; References; Chapter 10 Experimental Fictions; Hybrid Genres, Hybrid Media; Antirealism, Hyperrealism, and the Origins of Experimentalism; Eccentric Subjects and Objects; Getting Inside the Mind; The Times of Fiction; References
Chapter 11 The Novel into FilmNovels into Film and Back Again; The Novel, Film, and the Culture of Visuality; Film and Novel in the Twenty-first Century; References; Part III The Novel in Pieces; Chapter 12 Some Versions of Narration; Defining Narrative: A Communication; Discourse as a Version of the Story, in Fiction and Nonfiction Narrative; Person and Perspective: Essentials of Narration; Narration in or about 1811 and 1910: Austen and Forster; References; Chapter 13 Some Versions of Form; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; Notes; References
Chapter 14 A Character of Character, in Five MetaphorsCharacters Wanted, Unwanted, Dead, or Alive; Nonthings/Quasi-Persons/Near-Humans; Letter; Specimen; Monster; Life-like/Clockwork; Undead/Ghost; References; Chapter 15 Affect in the English Novel; The Eighteenth Century; Victorian Emotion; The Twentieth Century and After; References; Part IV The Novel in Theory; Chapter 16 The Novel in Theory before 1900; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 17 The Novel in Theory, 1900-1965; "The Master": For and Against; Points of View on Point of View; Criticism and the Dissolution of the Novel
The Return of Plot and CharacterReferences; Chapter 18 The Novel in Theory after 1965; The Novel in Theory, Theory in the Novel; Theory's Campus; Displacing Theory; Theory's Graduate; Notes; References; Part V The Novel in Circulation; Chapter 19 Making a Living as an Author; Entering the Marketplace; Writing in the Fleet and Writing in the Gin-Palace; Laboring to be an Author; Literature in the Age of Trade; Send Fruit and Eggs; Notes; References; Chapter 20 The Network Novel and How It Unsettled Domestic Fiction; The Network Novel; The Household as Hub; The Nation as Hub; References
