Gerd Bayer

Novel horizons (eBook, ePUB)

The genre making of Restoration fiction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Novel horizons analyses how narrative prose fiction developed during the English Restoration. It argues that after 1660, generic changes within dramatic texts occasioned an intense debate within prologues and introductions. This discussion about the poetics of a genre was echoed in the paratextual material of prose fictions. In the absence of an official poetics that defined prose fiction, paratexts fulfilled this function and informed readers about the budding genre. This study traces the piecemeal development of these boundaries and describes the generic competence of readers through the analysis of paratexts and prose fictions. Novel horizons covers the surviving textual material widely, focusing on narrative prose fictions published between 1660 and 1710. In addition to tracing the paratextual poetics of Restoration fiction, this book also covers the state of the art of fiction-writing during the period, discussing character development, narrative point of view and questions of fictionality and realism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526100498
• Artikelnr.: 57471764

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