Nicholas D Paige

Before Fiction

The Ancien Régime of the Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

Before Fiction asks why so many early novelists pretended their novels were literally true when no one believed them. For Nicholas D. Paige the answer lies in a radically new view of the formal history of the novel in England and France.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780812243550
• ISBN-10: 0812243552
• Artikelnr.: 33875444

Autorenporträt

Nicholas D. Paige

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Introduction: The Three Regimes of the Novel
Chapter 1. The Impossible Princess (Lafayette)
Chapter 2. Quixote Circa 1670 (Subligny)
Chapter 3. How to Read a Mind (Crébillon)
Chapter 4. The Aesthetics of Sentiment (Rousseau)
Chapter 5. The Demon of Reality (Diderot)
Chapter 6. Beyond Belief (Cazotte)
Conclusion: On Narrators Natural and Unnatural
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments