Nicholas D. Paige

Technologies of the Novel (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on a systematic sampling of nearly 2000 French and English novels from 1601 to 1830, this book's foremost aim is to ask precisely how the novel evolved. Instead of simply 'rising', as scholars have been saying for some sixty years, the novel is in fact a system in constant flux, made up of artifacts - formally distinct novel types - that themselves rise, only to inevitably fall. Nicholas D. Paige argues that these artifacts are technologies, each with traceable origins, each needing time for adoption (at the expense of already developed technologies) and also for abandonment. Like technological waves in more physical domains, the rises and falls of novelistic technologies don't happen automatically: writers invent and adopt literary artifacts for many diverse reasons. However, looking not at individual works but at the novel as a patterned system provides a startlingly persuasive new way of understanding the history and evolution of artforms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108875639
• Artikelnr.: 68969399

Autorenporträt

Nicholas D. Paige, Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel (2011), awarded the 2013 ASECS Gottschalk prize, and Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity (2001). Technologies of the Novel was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I
1. Truth Postures in the Novel of the Long Eighteenth Century
2. The Rise and Fall of the Aristotelian Novel
Part II
3. Novel v. Romance I: Heliodorian Insetting
4. Novel v. Romance II: The Fortunes of a Subtitle
5. Novel v. Romance III: Measuring romans and Nouvelles
6. Documenticity I: Memoirs (and Other First Persons)
7. Documenticity II: The Two Rises of the Epistolary Novel
8. A 'New' Third-Person Novel
9. The Novel System in England, 1701-1810
Part III
10. The Evolution of Literary Technologies
Bibliography
Index.