Cultural institutions of the novel / Deidre Lynch and William B. Warner, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lynch, Deidre.

Warner, William Beatty.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The story of the development of the novel—its origin, rise, and increasing popularity as a narrative form in an ever-expanding range of geographic and cultural sites—is familiar and, according to the contributors to this volume, severely limited. In a far-reaching blend of comparative literature and transnational cultural studies, this collection shifts the study of the novel away from a consideration of what makes a particular narrative a novel to a consideration of how novels function and what cultural work they perform—from what novels are, to what they do.The essays in Cultural Institutions of the Novel find new ways to analyze how a genre notorious for its aesthetic unruliness has become institutionalized—defined, legitimated, and equipped with a canon. With a particular focus on the status of novels as commodities, their mediation of national cultures, and their role in transnational exchange, these pieces range from the seventeenth century to the present and examine the forms and histories of the novel in England, Nigeria, Japan, France, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. Works by Jane Austen, Natsume Sôseki, Gabriel García Márquez, Buchi Emecheta, and Toni Morrison are among those explored as Cultural Institutions of the Novel investigates how theories of “the” novel and disputes about which narratives count as novels shape social struggles and are implicated in contests over cultural identity and authority.Contributors. Susan Z. Andrade, Lauren Berlant, Homer Brown, Michelle Burnham, James A. Fujii, Nancy Glazener, Dane Johnson, Lisa Lowe, Deidre Lynch, Jann Matlock, Dorothea von Mücke, Bridget Orr, Clifford Siskin, Katie Trumpener, William B. Warner

Contents:

Prologue / Homer Brown

Between England and America : captivity, sympathy, and the sentimental novel / Michelle Burnham

The Maori house of fiction / Bridget Orr

Decolonization, displacement, disidentification : Asian American "novels" and the question of history / Lisa Lowe

The rise of Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison / Dane Johnson

At home with Jane Austen / Deidre Lynch

The Abbotsford guide to India : romantic fictions of empire and the narratives of Canadian literature / Katie Trumpener

Writing out Asia : Modernity, canon, and Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro / James A. Fujii

The joys of daughterhood : gender, nationalism, and the making of literary tradition(s) / Susan Z. Andrade

Formulating fiction : romancing the general reader in early modern Britain / William B. Warner

"To love a murderer"-fantasy, sexuality, and the political novel : the case of Caleb Williams / Dorothea von Mücke

The limits of reformism : the novel, censorship, and the politics of adultery in nineteenth-century France / Jann Matlock

Romance for "big and little boys" : the U.S. romantic revival of the 1890s and James's The Turn of the Screw / Nancy Glazener

Pax Americana : the case of Show Boat / Lauren Berlant

Epilogue / Clifford Siskin.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-475) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781322112503

1322112509

9780822396505

0822396505

OCLC:

605601023