Contents

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Preface

Introduction: The Three Regimes of the Novel

Chapter 1. The Impossible Princess (Lafayette)

Chapter 2. Quixote Circa 1670 (Subligny)

Chapter 3. How to Read a Mind (Crébillon)

Chapter 4. The Aesthetics of Sentiment (Rousseau)

Chapter 5. The Demon of Reality (Diderot)

Chapter 6. Beyond Belief (Cazotte)

Conclusion: On Narrators Natural and Unnatural

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments