A Companion to the English Novel by Arata, Stephen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title page Table of Contents Notes on Contributors Preface Part I: The Novel and Its Histories

1 The 1740s

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2 The 1790s

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3 The 1850s

Consensus, Harmony, Equipoise? Wreck and Illth Realism, Culture, History Natives and Foreigners Systems, Institutions, Contagion Mudie Rules and Aesthetics of Discretion REFERENCES

4 The Long 1920s

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5 The 2000s

The Present The Past The Future REFERENCES

Part II: The Novel and Its Genres

6 Realism and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

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7 Romance

1 2 3 REFERENCES

8 Gothic

Describing the Gothic Continuity and Changes in the Gothic: Female Agency, Colonial Situations, Betwixt & Between Gothic Narrative Structures and Styles: Dark Pastoral and the Coexistence of Opposites Gothic and/as monsters REFERENCES

9 Popular and Mass-Market Fiction

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10 Experimental Fictions

Hybrid Genres, Hybrid Media Antirealism, Hyperrealism, and the Origins of Experimentalism Eccentric Subjects and Objects Getting Inside the Mind The Times of Fiction REFERENCES

11 The Novel into Film

Novels into Film and Back Again The Novel, Film, and the Culture of Visuality Film and Novel in the Twenty-first Century REFERENCES

Part III: The Novel in Pieces

12 Some Versions of Narration

Defining Narrative: A Communication Discourse as a Version of the Story, in Fiction and Nonfiction Narrative Person and Perspective: Essentials of Narration Narration in or about 1811 and 1910: Austen and Forster REFERENCES

13 Some Versions of Form

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 REFERENCES

14 A Character of Character, in Five Metaphors

Characters Wanted, Unwanted, Dead, or Alive Nonthings/Quasi-Persons/Near-Humans Letter Specimen Monster Life-like/Clockwork Undead/Ghost REFERENCES

15 Affect in the English Novel

The Eighteenth Century Victorian Emotion The Twentieth Century and After REFERENCES

Part IV: The Novel in Theory

16 The Novel in Theory before 1900

Acknowledgments REFERENCES

17 The Novel in Theory, 1900–1965

“The Master”: For and Against Points of View on Point of View Criticism and the Dissolution of the Novel The Return of Plot and Character REFERENCES

18 The Novel in Theory after 1965

The Novel in Theory, Theory in the Novel Theory’s Campus REFERENCES

Part V: The Novel in Circulation

19 Making a Living as an Author

Entering the Marketplace Writing in the Fleet and Writing in the Gin-Palace Laboring to be an Author Literature in the Age of Trade Send Fruit and Eggs REFERENCES

20 The Network Novel and How It Unsettled Domestic Fiction

The Network Novel The Household as Hub The Nation as Hub REFERENCES

21 Reading Novels, Alone and in Groups

Novel Readers and the Agitations of the Novel, 1700–1820 Nineteenth-Century Readers and Transportation Battles for the Reader’s Soul, 1880–1960 Novels in an Age of Media Abundance, 1960 to the present SOURCES FOR QUOTATIONS FROM READERS REFERENCES

Part VI: Geographies of the Novel

22 London

London and Its Histories London and Its Genres London in Pieces London in Circulation Public and Private World London REFERENCES

23 The Provincial Novel

A Taxonomy Provincial Semi-Detachment Comparative Provincialism Provincial Cosmopolitanism Significant Insignificance Acknowledgments REFERENCES

24 Intranationalisms

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25 Internationalisms and the Geopolitical Aesthetic

Internationalism in Theory and Practice In and Beyond the Literary Channel Suez and the Geopolitical Aesthetic REFERENCES

Part VII: The Novel, Public and Private

26 The Novel and the Everyday

Acknowledgments REFERENCES

27 The Public Sphere

Communities Markets Populations REFERENCES

28 The Novel and the Nation

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29 World English/World Literature

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