David Amigoni

The English Novel and Prose Narrative

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Produktbeschreibung

The English Novel and Prose Narrative provides an astute, wide-ranging and accessible critical introduction to the English novel and short fiction, and explores the novel's relations to narrative forms such as biography and autobiography. David Amigoni expertly guides readers in methods of narrative analysis and close reading, while stressing the need to place narratives and narrative theories in historical and cultural context. To this end, he traces critical debates about the origins of the novel, domestic realism and romance, the bildungsroman, journalism and mass culture, the experimental novel, postmodernism and postcolonialism. Adopting a case-study approach, the author provides theoretically informed readings of Pamela, Tristram Shandy, Emma, Jane Eyre, The Mill on the Floss, Bleak House, The Spoils of Poynton, Mrs Dalloway and Midnight's Children as well as short stories by Thomas Hardy and Katherine Mansfield.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 138mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780748611218
• ISBN-10: 0748611215
• Artikelnr.: 21257813

Autorenporträt

David Amigoni is Professor of Victorian Literature at Keele University. He is the author of The English Novel and Prose Narrative (Edinburgh University Press, 2000) and Victorian Biography: Intellectuals and the Ordering of Discourse (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992). He is co-editor, with Jeff Wallace, of Charles Darwin's 'Origin of Species': New Interdisciplinary Essays (Manchester UP, 1995), and co-editor, with Paul Barlow and Colin Trodd, of Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque (Ashgate, 1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: straightforward discourse and novel transactions The elements
of narrative analysis and the origins of the novel: reading Jane Austen's
Emma and Samuel Richardson's Pamela Bildung and belonging: studying
nineteenth-century narrative and 'self-culture' Innovative stories and
distinctive readers History, intertextuality and the carnivalised novel:
postmodern conditions and postcolonial hybridities