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New Directions in the History of the Novel

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Editors:
  1. Patrick Parrinder

    1. University of Reading, UK

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  2. Andrew Nash

    1. University of Reading, UK

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  3. Nicola Wilson

    1. Department of English Literature, University of Reading, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Patrick Parrinder, Andrew Nash, Nicola Wilson
      Pages 1-14

  4. Literary Histories: Questions of Realism and Form

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Memory, Interiority and Historicity: Some Factors in the Early Novel

      • Patrick Parrinder
      Pages 91-102

    3. A Gothic History of the British Novel

      • Nancy Armstrong
      Pages 103-120

    4. Critical Histories of Omniscience

      • Rachel Sagner Buurma
      Pages 121-133

    5. The ‘power of the written word’: Literary Impressionism, Politics and Anxiety

      • Max Saunders
      Pages 134-147

    6. Virginia Woolf and Metonymic Realism: Making It New?

      • Pam Morris
      Pages 148-161

  5. The Novel in National and Transnational Cultures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Defining an ‘Age of the Novel’ in the United States

      • Jonathan Arac
      Pages 165-176

    3. Between Modernism and the Postcolonial: Reading Patrick White and Malcolm Lowry in the 1970s

      • Mark Williams
      Pages 177-191

    4. Transporting Fiction: The Novel in a (Post)Colonial World

      • Simon Gikandi
      Pages 192-208

  6. The Novel Now

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Art Unseduced by Its Own Beauty: Toni Morrison and the Humility of Experiment

      • David James
      Pages 211-222

    3. The Dynamics of Residual and Emergent in the American Novel after 1940

      • Cyrus R. K. Patell, Deborah Lindsay Williams
      Pages 223-235
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New Directions in the History of the Novel challenges received views of literary history and sets out new areas for research. A re-examination of the nature of prose fiction in English and its study from the Renaissance to the 21st century, it will become required reading for teachers and students of the novel and its history.

Reviews

“‘Each chapter offers a combination of practice and theory in that it joins the actual rewriting of the history of the novel to reflections on that rewriting’ … . The book as a whole deserves the attention of anyone interested in the history of the novel and the future of its study.” (Jason H. Pearl, Sharp News, Vol. 24 (4), 2015)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Reading, UK

    Patrick Parrinder, Andrew Nash

  • Department of English Literature, University of Reading, UK

    Nicola Wilson

About the editors

Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh, USA Nancy Armstrong, Duke University, USA Rachel Sagner Buurma, Swarthmore College, USA Simon Gikandi, Princeton University, USA David James, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Thomas Keymer, University of Toronto, Canada Pam Morris, independent scholar, UK Andrew Nash, University of Reading, UK Patrick Parrinder, University of Reading, UK Cyrus R.K. Patell, New York University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Matthew Pethers, University of Nottingham, UK Max Saunders, King's College London, UK Deborah Lindsay Williams, New York University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Mark Williams, Victoria University, New Zealand Nicola Wilson, University of Reading, UK

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