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...
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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
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; PART I The Novel without Borders; CHAPTER ONE: Transnationalism and the Origins of the (French?) Novel; CHAPTER TWO: National or Transnational? The Eighteenth-Century Novel; CHAPTER THREE: Sentimental Bonds and Revolutionary Characters: Richardson's Pamela in England and France; CHAPTER FOUR: Sentimental Communities; CHAPTER FIVE: Transnational Sympathies, Imaginary Communities; PART II Imagining the "Othered" Nation; CHAPTER SIX: Phantom States: Cleveland, The Recess, and the Origins of Historical Fiction
CHAPTER SEVEN: Gender, Empire, and Epistolarity: From Jane Austen's Mansfield Park to Marie-Thérèse Humbert's La Montagne des SignauxCHAPTER EIGHT: The (Dis)locations of Romantic Nationalism: Shelley, Staël, and the Home-Schooling of Monsters; CHAPTER NINE: "An Occult and Immoral Tyranny": The Novel, the Police, and the Agent Provocateur; CHAPTER TEN: Comparative Sapphism; AFTERWORD: From Literary Channel to Narrative Chunnel; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
