Gerd Bayer

Novel horizons

The genre making of Restoration fiction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Monograph on the history of the novel and of creative writing, from the English Restoration in the seventeenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9781784991234
• ISBN-10: 1784991236
• Artikelnr.: 45164267

Autorenporträt

Gerd Bayer is Privatdozent in the English Department at the University of Erlangen

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: making novel readers Part I: The rise of the novel as genre
1. The novel and its critics 2. The temporality of genre Part II:
Paratexts: the genesis of genre 3. Seventeenth-century writing: shifting
forms 4. Paratext and drama 5. Paratext and prose Part III: The Restoration
novel 6. Narrating, telling, and speaking 7. Types, characters, individuals
8. Truth and fiction: reality and the page Conclusion: reading a genre into
being Endnotes Bibliography Index