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Novel definitions
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- Book Synopsis
- Novel Definitions captures the lively critical debate surrounding the invention of the English novel, showing how the rise of the novel was accompanied by a rise in popular literary criticism. The anthology collects over 135 primary sources that chart the long eighteenth century's interpretation of the novel. These sources-many newly-discovered-include essays, prefaces, reviews, and sermons written by authors ranging from Aphra Behn to Walter Scott. Novel Definitions brings together authors' prefatory analyses of their work; essayists' debates concerning the novel's formal qualities; commentators' questions concerning the novel's cultural position, including whether or not women and children should read novels; reviewers' definitions of the qualities that make a novel successful; and literary historians' first attempts to write the history of the novel.
- About The Author
- Cheryl L. Nixon is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781551116464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Broadview Press, (30 December 2008)
- Number of Pages
- 435
- Weight
- 620 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 155 x 22 mm
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