Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740

Name: Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740
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ISBN: 9780801869594

ISBN-10: 0801869595

ISBN-13: 9780801869594

Edition: 15th 2002 (Anniversary)

Authors: Michael McKeon, Michael McKeon

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The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, combines historical analysis and readings of extraordinarily diverse texts to reconceive the foundations of the dominant genre of the modern era. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of its initial publication, The Origins of the English Novel stands as essential reading. The anniversary edition features a new introduction in which the author reflects on the considerable response and commentary the book has attracted since its publication by describing dialectical method and by applying it to early modern notions of gender. Challenging prevailing theories that tie the origins of the novel to the ascendancy of "realism" and the "middle class,"…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Edition: 15th
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 4/22/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction to the Fifteenth Anniversary Edition


Introduction: Dialectical Method in Literary History



Questions of Truth



The Destabilization of Generic Categories



The Evidence of the Senses: Secularization and Epistemological Crisis



Histories of the Individual



Questions of Virtue



The Destabilization of Social Categories



Absolutism and Capitalist Ideology: The Volatility of Reform



Stories of Virtue



The Dialectical Constitution of the Novel



Romance Transformations (I) : Cervantes and the Disenchantment of the World



Romance Transformations (II) : Bunyan and Literalization of Allegory



Parables of the Younger Son (I) : Defoe and the Naturalization of Desire



Parables of the Younger Son (II) : Swift and the Containment of Desire



The Institutionalization of Conflict (I) : Richardson and the Domestication of Service



The Institutionalization of Conflict (II) : Fielding and the Instrumentality of Belief


Conclusion


Notes