Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-302) and index
Transnationalism and the origins of the (French?) novel / Joan DeJean -- National or transnational? The eighteenth-century novel / Mary Helen Mc Murran -- Sentimental bonds and revolutionary characters: Richardson's Pamela in England and France / Lynn Festa -- Sentimental communities / Margaret Cohen -- Transnational sympathies, imaginary communities / April Alliston -- Phantom states: Cleveland, The recess, and the origins of historical fiction / Richard Maxwell -- Gender, empire, and epistolarity: from Jane Austen's Mansfield Park to Marie-Thérèse Humbert's La montagne des signaux / Françoise Lionnet -- The (dis)locations of romantic nationalism: Shelley, Staël, and the home-schooling of monsters / Deidre Shauna Lynch -- "An occult and immoral tyranny": the novel, the police, and the agent provocateur / Carolyn Dever -- Comparative Sapphism / Sharon Marcus -- From literary channel to narrative chunnel / Emily Apter
The Literary Channel defines a crucial transnational literary ""zone"" that shaped the development of the modern novel. During the first two centuries of the genre's history, Britain and France were locked in political, economic, and military struggle. The period also saw British and French writers, critics, and readers enthusiastically exchanging works, codes, and theories of the novel. Building on both nationally based literary history and comparatist work on poetics, this book rethinks the genre's evolution as marking the power and limits of modern cultural nationalism. In t
