Description
This collection of authoritative essays represents the latest scholarship on topics relating to the themes, movements, and forms of English fiction, while chronicling its development in Britain from the early 18th century to the present day.
- Comprises cutting-edge research currently being undertaken in the field, incorporating the most salient critical trends and approaches
- Explores the history, evolution, genres, and narrative elements of the English novel
- Considers the advancement of various literary forms – including such genres as realism, romance, Gothic, experimental fiction, and adaptation into film
- Includes coverage of narration, structure, character, and affect; shifts in critical reception to the English novel; and geographies of contemporary English fiction
- Features contributions from a variety of distinguished and high-profile literary scholars, along with emerging younger critics
- Includes a comprehensive scholarly bibliography of critical works on and about the novel to aid further reading and research
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Preface xiii
Part I The Novel and Its Histories 1
1 The 1740s 3
Patricia Meyer Spacks
2 The 1790s 18
Lynn Festa
3 The 1850s 34
Ivan Kreilkamp
4 The Long 1920s 49
Jennifer Wicke
5 The 2000s 71
Ashley Dawson
Part II The Novel and Its Genres 87
6 Realism and the Eighteenth‐Century Novel 89
John Richetti
7 Romance 103
Laurie Langbauer
8 Gothic 117
John Paul Riquelme
9 Popular and Mass‐Market Fiction 132
Janice Carlisle
10 Experimental Fictions 144
Mark Blackwell
11 The Novel into Film 159
Jonathan Freedman
Part III The Novel in Pieces 175
12 Some Versions of Narration 177
Alison Booth
13 Some Versions of Form 192
Stephen Arata
14 A Character of Character, in Five Metaphors 209
Deidre Lynch
15 Affect in the English Novel 225
Nicholas Daly
Part IV The Novel in Theory 239
16 The Novel in Theory before 1900 241
James Eli Adams
17 The Novel in Theory, 1900–1965 256
Chris Baldick
18 The Novel in Theory after 1965 271
Madigan Haley
Part V The Novel in Circulation 289
19 Making a Living as an Author 291
Deirdre David
20 The Network Novel and How It Unsettled Domestic Fiction 306
Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse
21 Reading Novels, Alone and in Groups 321
Andrew Elfenbein
Part VI Geographies of the Novel 339
22 London 341
Cynthia Wall
23 The Provincial Novel 360
John Plotz
24 Intranationalisms 373
James Buzard
25 Internationalisms and the Geopolitical Aesthetic 387
Lauren M. E. Goodlad
Part VII The Novel, Public and Private 407
26 The Novel and the Everyday 409
Kate Flint
27 The Public Sphere 426
John Marx
28 The Novel and the Nation 441
Christopher GoGwilt
29 World English/World Literature 456
Jonathan Arac
Index 471
